Why do some animals, like sharks and crocodiles, have such powerful immune systems that they rarely get sick or develop cancer, and could we learn from them to improve human health?

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Why do some animals, like sharks and crocodiles, have such powerful immune systems that they rarely get sick or develop cancer, and could we learn from them to improve human health?

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We’re actively researching most of those. Also looking into a certain type of jellyfish that when it gets to the geriatric stage of life, it reverts itself back to adolescents. And we’re looking at lobsters that don’t die from old age, only from being killed or getting sick.