P-53

[Plane]

  http://www.sinobiological.com/p53-TP53-Protein-a-2444.html?gclid=CPvmjZz3x8wCFQgxaQodBRcIVg
 

Involvement in disease:  Note=TP53 is found in increased amounts in a wide variety of transformed cells. TP53 is frequently mutated or inactivated in about 60% of cancers.

   I just learned that the Barnum Elephants are retired , they will go live on a ranch, but this doesn't make them useless. They will be studied in cancer research.

   Elephants catch a lot less cancer than Humans do, perhaps because they have a lot more of the growth moderating protein P-53 .

     As lab animals go , you won't find many more expensive , but since Ringling Brothers , Barnum and Bailey Circus has got to retire them anyway, might as well let them be useful.

     This has the potential for discovering a pill that reduces your odds of catching cancer 60% or so and perhaps also improving the effectiveness of treatment about that much. This is a big deal.

     Elephants are long lived and highly intelligent , they communicate with one another a lot.

      If the Human Race learns from the Elephant how to live a lot longer and have a lot less painful disease, what do we owe them?

       Do we already owe something to mice?

[Xavier_Onassis]

We can pay the elephants easily. They will work for peanuts.
Mice will eat almost anything.

[Plane]

  I don't think this pays the debt.

   These animals are doing a lot to help us stay alive , do we owe them effort twards preventing their extinction?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am all for preserving elephants and other threatened animals. By the way, African elephants are the ones being wiped out. Asian elephants are in a much better situation, as many of them are domesticated.

I think I am 100% in favor of wiping out the disease carrying mosquitoes. They were among the Creator's bad ideas. Or evolution's mistakes,as from a human perspective.