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Sponges are highly resistant to radiation exposure and cancer

2021-03-19

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There are no reports of cancer in sponges, despite them having somatic cell turnover, long lifespans and no specialized adaptive immune cells. In order to investigate whether sponges are cancer resistant, we exposed a species of sponge, Tethya wilhelma , to X-rays. We found that T. wilhelma can withstand 600 Gy of X-ray radiation. That is approximately 100 times the lethal dose for humans. A single high dose of...

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Literature Corpus work: 1f45681c-c2e2-5dd8-944a-daab2c9739f0
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.17.435910

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