Some animals, even mammals such as the naked mole-rat, show few signs of degenerative aging across a life span, a state known as negligible senescence. Such species typically live considerably longer than their more evidently aging near relative species. There isn’t any one path to negligible senescence, as demonstrated by the wide variety of ecological niches containing species found to be negligibly senescence. Can we learn from their biochemistry to find ways to meaningfully extend the healthy human life span? Undoubtedly so in the very long term, at the point at which the cutting edge of research is building entirely new higher animal genomes with confidence, but it is too soon to say whether any of the <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/11/predicting-the-order-of-arrival-of-the-…
A Popular Science View of Negligible Senescence in the Animal Kingdom
Some animals, even mammals such as the naked mole-rat, show few signs of degenerative aging across a life span, a state known as negligible senescence. Such species typically live considerably longer than their more evidently aging near relative species. There isn’t any one path to negligible senescence, as demonstrated by the wide variety of ecological niches containing species found to be negligibly senescence. Can we learn from their biochemistry to find ways to meaningfully extend the healthy human life span? Undoubtedly so in the very long term, at the point at which the cutting edge of research is building entirely new higher animal genomes with confidence, but it is too soon to say whether any of the <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/11/predicting-the-order-of-arrival-of-the-…