Researchers explain how mushrooms can live for hundreds of years without getting cancer

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Jul 10, 2023, 7:44 pm183 pts
The risk of cancer increases with every cell division. As such, you would expect long-lived species like elephants to get cancer more often than short-lived species like mice. In 1975, however, Richard Peto discovered that this is not the case, and that there is very little variation in lifetime-cancer risk…

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