Aug 17, 2020

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How Elephants And Whales Out-Evolved Cancer.

And Why We Still Can’t.

No, this isn’t a joke.

Animals don’t have some kind of cosmic radiation emanating from the left side of their brain that makes them immortal. This isn’t an essential oil commercial either.

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SCIENCEY STUFF:

How Elephants And Whales Out-Evolved Cancer.

And Why We Still Can’t.

More from Aaryan Harshith

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Its blood is composed of acid and solvents

The next answers are decentralized.

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