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The special ‘zombie gene’ that protects elephants from cancer

Elephants die of cancer much less often than humans of the same age. The reason for this is that they have revived a special gene that kills off damaged DNA.Approximately 17 percent of people worldwide die of cancer. The figure for elephants is only five percent, although on average they live to about the same …

Deutsche Welle

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