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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Venki Ramakrishnan
So they're much more efficient at detecting cells where there's been some problem with the DNA and destroying them so they don't become cancerous. And people have looked at whales, and whales also seem to have alternative repair pathways that presumably prevent them from getting cancer. That is the way that evolution has dealt with the cancer problem.
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