{"id":201981,"date":"2024-12-20T04:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/greenland-sharks-400-year-life-tied-to-unique-dna-repair-mechanisms"},"modified":"2024-12-20T04:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:22:55","slug":"greenland-sharks-400-year-life-tied-to-unique-dna-repair-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/greenland-sharks-400-year-life-tied-to-unique-dna-repair-mechanisms","title":{"rendered":"Greenland Shark\u2019s 400-year life tied to unique DNA repair mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YjeVRoDmXFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sharks differ from one another, so there are no other examples within the kingdom. Only this shark. All the same, researchers intend to analyze the Greenland shark\u2019s DNA further and compare it to other sharks and fish to continue to unravel this mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are exploring ways to prolong human life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to have better DNA repair,\u201d an expert told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/13\/science\/greenland-shark-genome-longevity-study\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/em>, and scientists have to study all the animals with an unusually long lifespan to determine which ones would \u201cmore easily adapt to human use.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharks differ from one another, so there are no other examples within the kingdom. Only this shark. All the same, researchers intend to analyze the Greenland shark\u2019s DNA further and compare it to other sharks and fish to continue to unravel this mystery. Scientists are exploring ways to prolong human life. \u201cThe goal is to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}