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From marmots to mole-rats to marmosets – studying many genes in many animals is key to understanding how humans can live longer

  • Written by Amanda Kowalczyk, Ph.D. Candidate in Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh
From marmots to mole-rats to marmosets – studying many genes in many animals is key to understanding how humans can live longerIs there a genetic switch that can help reverse the aging process?Dimitri Otis / Getty Images

Much of longevity and aging research focuses on studying extremely long-lived species, including bats, naked mole-rats and bowhead whales, to find genetic changes that contribute to long life.

However, such work has yielded highly species-specific genetic...

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