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Animal experiments remain essential to understand the fundamental mechanisms underpinning malignancy and to discover improved methods to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Excellent standards of ...

One of the most intelligent non-primate animals the research team has studied are elephants, which have 5.6 billion neurons. Though Herculano-Houzel notes they also have higher-than-typical neuron ...

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Some animals don't need to wait for a moult and change of season to fit into their surroundings. Octopuses have many thousands of specialised cells under their skin that allow them to instantly change ...