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  • Elephants are peculiar animals. They're the largest land animals on the planet.
    Why Elephants Don't Get Cancer
    Jeremy Shere
    Scientists at the University of Utah and at Arizona State studied the elephant genome and found that they have up to 40 extra copies of genes that code for a protein called p53, which has strong cancer-preventing properties.