Sharks, Not Jews Are God's Chosen People.
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Discovering New Anti-Aging Secrets From The World's Longest-Living Vertebrate.
Not a lot of people are working on sharks, especially shark vision. We can learn so much about vision and longevity from long-lived species like the Greenland shark, so having the funds to do research like this is very important.
Now, new research from Skowronska-Krawczyk on Greenland shark vision—co-authored by University of Basel, Switzerland researchers Walter Salzburger and Lily G. Fogg, who worked on the evolutionary aspect of the study—is challenging what we know about aging, vision and
longevity.
Published in Nature Communications, her findings suggest that a DNA repair mechanism enables these sharks—some of which live for 400 years—to maintain their vision over centuries with no signs of retinal degeneration and that they are well adapted to extreme low-light conditions.
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