Why Don’t All Blue Whales Have Cancer?

Why Don’t All Blue Whales Have Cancer?

Posted December 10, 2017

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Sources:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pganzk/whales-have-1000-times-as-many-cells-as-humans-why-dont-they-get-cancer-more
https://www.nature.com/news/massive-animals-may-hold-secrets-of-cancer-suppression-1.12258
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0401-7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zg2xxnb/revision
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/icb/icm062
https://www.genome.gov/10001345/importance-of-mouse-genome/
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1673/20140220

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tumor_Mesothelioma2_legend.jpg
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