Bowhead whales may resist cancer thanks to superior DNA repair ability

Bowhead whales, the world’s longest-lived mammals, are seldom affected by most cancers and this may occasionally partly be all the way down to their cells repairing broken DNA very effectively.

Massive animals have extra cells than smaller ones, so they need to be extra more likely to get most cancers, however this doesn’t appear to be the case. This sudden phenomenon is called Peto’s paradox.

Actually, many huge animals have very low charges of most cancers, together with bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), which may weigh greater than …