Elephants may hold the key to curing cancer, researchers claim

ELEPHANTS hold the key to beating cancer, researchers suspect. They are five times less likely to die from it than humans, despite having far more cells which can mutate into tumours. 1 Elephants hold the key to beating cancer, researchers suspect Credit: Alamy The giant mammals benefit from having 40 copies of a cancer-busting gene, known as p53. Humans only have two. The gene can stop working in certain cases but Oxford and Edinburgh University experts have uncovered how an elephant’s extra DNA stops this happening. They found each set of p53 is slightly different, so much less likely to… Read Full Article