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Long-Lived Bats Have Telomeres That Don't Shorten

07-Feb-2018

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These mouse-sized mammals live way longer than they should.

Some of the telomeres of Myotis bats do not shorten as they age.

As well as genes for telomerase, they have 21 other telomere maintenance genes.

Like humans, don’t express telomerase in their blood cells.

The study was published in the Science Advances journal.

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Emma Teeling

Associate Professor at University College Dublin

Science Advances

Journal that publishes original research and reviews in all disciplines of science

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