Even though elephants have much larger bodies than humans, elephants hold the secret to lower cancer rates. I have previously reported that elephants have 20 genes of the p53 gene that suppresses cancer compared to humans who only have one copy per cell. Elephants have a cancer rate o
Recently the news spread that elephants have 20-times the amount of a cancer suppressing gene, called p53. Elephants have about 100 times the cells of humans, but their cancer rate is only 5% in a lifetime, which lasts 50 to 70 years. Humans on the other hand have a cancer rate of bet