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Submission + - Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out How Bats Avoid Cancer (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: Several bats species have been found to possess multiple copies of a known tumor-suppressing gene called p53. Humans have just a single copy, while other cancer-resistant animals, like elephants, boast up to 20. Mutations in this gene are linked to more than half of all human cancers

But a mechanism that's too aggressive at killing cells is obviously not desirable either. Thankfully, bats compensate with an overactive enzyme called telomerase, which allows their cells to continue to proliferate.

Comment \o/ (Score 1) 32

"I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor,"

In reality he competes with every business and freelancer in the world - is there a possible future where the people of the world can continue to feed their families AND OpenAI etc continue to satisfy the demands of their shareholders? Time will tell.

Comment Re: They don't really cater for the most obvious d (Score 1) 139

Think of it like healthcare. They don't care about solving people's problems - those problems are one of the drivers to purchase things - removing this driver is counterproductive - if your product claims to address problem P, that last thing you want to do is solve P - ideally you will appear to solve P but actually create future instances of P - it's about profit and in this case seeing everything in the world which may be monetised.

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