Elephants have a natural resistance to cancer. It’s not that they don’t ever get cancer, but less than 5% of elephants die from it compared to humans that are around 25%. It’s important to do studies like this to understand how naturally elephants bodies can tackle cancer, and discovering ways to possibly apply them.
Chapters:
0:00 intro
0:41 “Some humans have Neanderthal DNA.”
1:50 It’s almost impossible for elephants to get cancer.
3:46 Random DNA mutations only happen in the womb.
5:34 DNA is the only part of genetics that impacts if you get cancer.
7:01 Outro
