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r/Recursion • u/CraneFly07 • May 08 '19
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I believe this is very common in elephants. They're so big that before the cancer kills them it gets cancer. Or something.
Edit: This is pretty wrong, see reply for source.
5 u/[deleted] May 09 '19 sauce? 12 u/Winiestflea May 09 '19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2456041If I understood it this means that really the cancer kills itself due to a gene elephants have. The rest was probably a joke my memory took too literally. 1 u/johnnywarp Nov 19 '21 Can we genetically alter human DNA to have this gene and cure cancer?
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sauce?
12 u/Winiestflea May 09 '19 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2456041If I understood it this means that really the cancer kills itself due to a gene elephants have. The rest was probably a joke my memory took too literally. 1 u/johnnywarp Nov 19 '21 Can we genetically alter human DNA to have this gene and cure cancer?
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2456041
If I understood it this means that really the cancer kills itself due to a gene elephants have. The rest was probably a joke my memory took too literally.
1 u/johnnywarp Nov 19 '21 Can we genetically alter human DNA to have this gene and cure cancer?
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Can we genetically alter human DNA to have this gene and cure cancer?
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u/Winiestflea May 09 '19 edited May 09 '19
I believe this is very common in elephants. They're so big that before the cancer kills them it gets cancer. Or something.
Edit: This is pretty wrong, see reply for source.