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Cancer control is a key functionality underlying evolution of extended lifespan in mammals
2019-04-23
Abstract excerpt
The biological origin of life expectancy remains a fundamental and unanswered scientific question with important ramifications for human health, especially as the bulk of burden of human healthcare shifts from infectious to age-related diseases. The striking variability in life-span among animals occupying similar ecological niches 1 and the numerous mutations that have been shown to increase lifespan in model or...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c4db0872-69ab-5cd7-b918-088575bfa7b0
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- 10.1101/615914