SciShow: Antlers: The Secret to Deer's Cancer-Fighting Superpowers

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Content of the Lesson: Antler cells divide really fast, and with their super-fast growth, antlers resemble tumors in some ways. But animals in the deer family are less likely to get cancer than many other organisms, and a recent genetics study may have revealed why. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/300565 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6446/eaav6335.full http://pathology.jhu.edu/pc/BasicTypes1.php https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1501282/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/TP53 https://qz.com/523764/these-two-cancer-resisting-animals-offer-hope-for-a-human-cure/ Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/white-tailed-deer-odocoileus-virginianus-also-known-as-the-whitetail-or-virginia-deer-hzc5rr3luk8bpjy9n https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-male-fallow-deer-gm1055631284-282078601 https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ddm6n6hd?wellcomeImagesUrl=/indexplus/image/M0018166.html https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fallow-deer-atop-a-dune-gm472056175-31125006 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1a02.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P53.png https://www.videoblocks.com/video/big-herd-of-elephants-walking-towards-the-camera-in-addo-elephant-national-park-south-africa-vdcetofhgillj3fhj https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-fighting-red-deer-stags-standing-on-back-legs-with-antlers-in-velvet-gm1146506618-308950560


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