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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Venki Ramakrishnan
But anyway, so it turns out that there's a DNA response repair mechanism. One of the genes involved is called P53 or TP53. And this is involved in sensing DNA damage and triggering repair mechanisms. And it turns out that elephants have something like 20 copies of this gene.
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