Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

Galapagos giant tortoises are long-lived in part because their cells are surprisingly sensitive to certain forms of stress

Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

By Claire Ainsworth

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A Galapagos elephantine tortoise

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Galapagos elephantine tortoises are long-lived successful portion due to the fact that their cells are amazingly delicate to definite forms of stress. As good arsenic informing probe into quality medicine, the uncovering reveals however animals person evolved antithetic ways to defy crab and ageing.

There’s tons of antithetic ways to get to a ample assemblage and a long, steadfast lifespan,” says Vincent Lynch astatine the University astatine Buffalo, New York.

We would expect ample animals to beryllium much susceptible to crab due to the fact that they person a greater fig of cells, each of …

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