{"id":207911,"date":"2025-03-06T05:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/the-secret-of-how-greenland-sharks-can-live-for-centuries-without-getting-cancer"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:10:45","slug":"the-secret-of-how-greenland-sharks-can-live-for-centuries-without-getting-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/the-secret-of-how-greenland-sharks-can-live-for-centuries-without-getting-cancer","title":{"rendered":"The secret of how Greenland sharks can live for centuries without getting cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-secret-of-how-greenland-sharks-can-live-for-centuries-without-getting-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eye protein rhodopsin of the Greenland shark was found to have amino acid variations that made them more adept at processing blue-light wavelengths \u2013 a feature that is advantageous when living in the dim deep ocean waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese genomic analyses offer new insights into the molecular basis of the exceptional longevity of the Greenland shark and highlight potential genetic mechanisms that could inform future research into longevity,\u201d scientists wrote in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eye protein rhodopsin of the Greenland shark was found to have amino acid variations that made them more adept at processing blue-light wavelengths \u2013 a feature that is advantageous when living in the dim deep ocean waters. \u201cThese genomic analyses offer new insights into the molecular basis of the exceptional longevity of the Greenland [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207911","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}