
TWiEVO 90: The mystery of the mouse mummies
This Week in Evolution
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The Role of Telomeres in Lifespan
Having short telomeres doesn't necessarily shorten your life. That's certainly 100% true if you're a budding yeast cell, for example. But in humans or mammals, the story is a little bit more complicated. The rules that we might learn are the patterns or evidence that we gain in model systems might not always translate one to one.
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