SciShow | Stop Saying Sharks Will Cure Cancer

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Episode Title: Stop Saying Sharks Will Cure Cancer
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Description: Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming Catalyst Season 1. Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 30 days free. It seems like every time scientists learn something new about sharks, people wonder whether this new information will finally show us how sharks will cure cancer. There’s no doubt about it, sharks are awesome, but is there a magic cure hidden in their genes? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://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: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- 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: Sources: https://www.livescience.com/41655-great-white-shark-cancer.html https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/sharks https://www.livescience.com/5921-hammerhead-sharks-360-degrees-stereo.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2005/07/shark-attack-threats-bull-sharks-location/ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151005-the-truth-about-great-white-sharks https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/sharks/shark-biology/#blooded https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/nsu-gws021319.php https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11181991 https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/what-is-cancer.html https://usa.oceana.org/fun-facts-about-great-white-sharks https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-big-animals-deter-cancer/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/08/news-cancer-elephants-genes-dna-new-research/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nrc.2017.35 https://www.popsci.com/zombie-gene-elephants-cancer https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes-518 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/mythbusting-101-sharks-will-cure-cancer/ http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/64/23/8485.short https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20553753 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163725816000322 https://www.yalemedicine.org/stories/blocking-dna-repair-to-fight-cancer/ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324584.php http://science.sciencemag.org/content/221/4616/1185 https://www.britannica.com/science/transposon https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130816130357.htm image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basking_Shark.jpg https://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=9962


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