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Zombie gene protects against cancer — in elephants

15 Aug 2018 2:36 AM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive elephants — who also live for about 70 years, and have about 100 times as many potentially cancerous cells as humans — die from the disease. Three years ago, research teams from the University of Chicago and the … Read more

Marine mammals lack functional gene to defend against popular pesticide

9 Aug 2018 11:12 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

As marine mammals evolved to make water their primary habitat, they lost the ability to make a protein that defends humans and other land-dwelling mammals from the neurotoxic effects of a popular human-made pesticide, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The implications of this discovery, announced today in Science, … Read more