People who live beyond 105 have better DNA repair
Not sure how new.
A study published in eLife today found that people who live longer than 105 years have a greater ability to repair DNA.
Paolo Garagnani and colleagues, in collaboration with several research groups in Italy and a research team led by Patrick Descombes at Nestle Research in Lausanne, Switzerland, recruited 81 semi-supercentenarians (those aged 105 years or older) and supercentenarians (those aged 110 years or older) from across the Italian peninsula. The researchers compared the results with 36 healthy individuals from the same area who had an average age of about 68 years.
The researchers took blood samples of all participants and performed whole-genome sequences to check for gene differences between the older group and the younger group. The researchers then compared their results to genetic data obtained from a previous study that analyzed 358 Italians aged between 60 and 100 years of age, as well as 333 Italians aged over 100.
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