Sharks: older than trees, bite harder than your ex’s lawyer, and apparently packing DNA so stable it laughs at cancer. Scientists sequenced the great white’s genome and found supercharged repair genes that fix DNA like a Marvel mechanic, explaining why these 500-million-year-old bad boys barely get tumors despite being mansion-sized. Humans get cancer from existing; sharks get it from not existing hard enough. Researchers are side-eyeing these adaptations for next-gen therapies—because if anyone’s figured out immortality, it’s the ocean’s original loan shark.
Could shark DNA contain cancer-protective capabilities?
