Genomics

'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

404 Media's Becky Ferreira covers a Science Advances study that sequenced the genome of Jonathan, a roughly 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise on Saint Helena, and what the findings suggest about the genetics of extreme longevity, including how researchers obtained a sample and how the work could inform human healthspan research.

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