Bats don't get cancer 🦇: Study shows that the "little brown" bat carries two working copies of the key tumor suppressor gene p53, while humans carry only one. “High levels of p53 in the body can kill cancer cells before they become harmful in a process known as apoptosis” 🧬✨
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Earth.com
Bats don't get cancer, now scientists think they know the reason - Earth.com
Bats live long, cancer-free lives using extra tumor-fighting genes and stable immune systems. This may unlock new ways to fight aging.
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Cancer cells evade apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Inducing apoptosis in cancer may be less toxic to healthy tissue than chemotherapy or radiation. Japanese scientists discovered that when a microbial protein is exposed to green light, it induces apoptosis in cancer-specific cell lines in mice. 💡🦠💚✨
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Okayama University
Light-Sensitive Microbial Protein May Herald New Cancer Therapies - Okayama University
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