There’s so many cool ideas we could test if we were braver. Stuff like the variation of p53 in elephants which is a nonlethal variant of which your cells can safely have extra copies alongside the normal lethal variant to reduce cancer likelihood without negative side-effects of increasing undesired cell death.
Or the function of seal glia cells in taking on some of the metabolic load of the neurons by having mitochondria to regenerate ATP and shipping the resulting ATP over to the neurons.
There’s so many cool ideas we could test if we were braver. Stuff like the variation of p53 in elephants which is a nonlethal variant of which your cells can safely have extra copies alongside the normal lethal variant to reduce cancer likelihood without negative side-effects of increasing undesired cell death.
Or the function of seal glia cells in taking on some of the metabolic load of the neurons by having mitochondria to regenerate ATP and shipping the resulting ATP over to the neurons.