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Elephants, P53 and Cancer

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:15 am
by Ricky
My sister mentioned this news. Elephants have extra copies of P53 genes.
See: http://www.nature.com/news/how-elephant ... er-1.18534
Could introducing extra (good copies of) P53 be introduced into cancer patients somehow? Can P53 pass into a cell from outside of the cell?