Do We Have to Get Old and Die?

Опубликовано 29 июня 2015, 14:18

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Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started:
– negligible senescence: not showing signs of age-related progression
– biological immortality: having a mortality rate that does not increase with increasing age

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Image Credits: Nake Mole Rat - Buffenstein/Barshop Institute/UTHSCSA
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Naked Mole Rat - Roman Klementschitz, Wien
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Chipmunk - Gilles Gonthier
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Capybara - Karoly Lorentey
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