PBS, LFS, and elephants: Elephant genes hold big hopes for cancer researchers.
PBS aired an eight-minute segment on Dr. Joshua Schiffman’s work with elephants, their 40 copies of p53, and how they respond to radiation, which was described as, “much more robustly.” How does elephant p53 work in humans? A Li-Fraumeni syndrome family is featured, along with their hopes. Researchers may have clinical studies established within three