Scientists dive into the genomes of whales, elephants, and other animal giants looking for new weapons in the fight against ...

Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body ...

However, scientists are yet to find broader evidence across a range of animal species. Our new study challenges Peto's paradox. We used a recently compiled dataset of cancer prevalence in over 260 ...

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

Back in 1977, a British epidemiologist named Richard Peto observed that that didn’t seem to be true. Bigger animals didn’t seem to have a greater risk of cancer than smaller ones. That became known as ...

Una investigación descubre que las especies que han crecido más de lo esperado han desarrollado mecanismos contra el cáncer.

The findings challenge "Peto's paradox," a longstanding idea based on observations from 1977 that suggested there was no link between an animal's size and its cancer risk. The study, published ...

The findings challenge "Peto's paradox," a longstanding idea based on observations from 1977 that suggested there was no link between an animal's size and its cancer risk. The study, published in ...