Dr. Vera Gorbunova — Applying Lessons From Long-Living Animals to Combat Human Aging
Longevity by Design
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The Longest Lived Mammal
Oke: To extend human aging, we really need to include those sficies that are more like human into our research and study how they do it. The longest lived one is called the borked whale, or arctic whales. They live up to 200 years. So expected life span for a whale would be around hundred years. Those bohead whales are really exceptional. Andthe why we are trying to understand so, we want to understand a molecular level, and are probably on the evolutionary level.
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