S6.09: Raiders of Noah’s Ark: Stealing genetic tricks from the animal kingdom
Genetics Unzipped
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The Importance of Looking at Other Animals
I tend to define ageing as an inevitable and irreversible process of loss of viability and increase in vulnerability. In mammals, the longest lived mammal is thought to be the bowhead whale, which been estimated to live over 200 years. So when it comes to thinking about human ageing how we can kind of improve our own ageing as a species, why is it useful to look at all of these other animals?
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