Stem cell-based strategies and challenges for production of cultivated meat

TC Jara, K Park, P Vahmani, AL Van Eenennaam… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Cultivated meat scale-up and industrial production will require multiple stable cell lines from
different species to recreate the organoleptic and nutritional properties of meat from …

The naked mole-rat as a model for healthy aging

K Oka, M Yamakawa, Y Kawamura… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Naked mole-rats (NMRs, Heterocephalus glaber) are the longest-lived rodents with a
maximum life span exceeding 37 years. They exhibit a delayed aging phenotype and …

Large‐scale across species transcriptomic analysis identifies genetic selection signatures associated with longevity in mammals

W Liu, P Zhu, M Li, Z Li, Y Yu, G Liu, J Du… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Lifespan varies significantly among mammals, with more than 100‐fold difference between
the shortest and longest living species. This natural difference may uncover the evolutionary …

Genomics of adaptive evolution in the woolly mammoth

D Díez-del-Molino, M Dehasque, JC Chacón-Duque… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Ancient genomes provide a tool to investigate the genetic basis of adaptations in extinct
organisms. However, the identification of species-specific fixed genetic variants requires the …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of aging and lifespan

S Li, JM Vazquez, PH Sudmant - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Aging is a nearly inescapable trait among organisms yet lifespan varies tremendously
across different species and spans several orders of magnitude in vertebrates alone. This …

miRNA-214-3p stimulates carcinogen-induced mammary epithelial cell apoptosis in mammary cancer-resistant species

RM Harman, SP Das, M Kanke, P Sethupathy… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammary cancer incidence varies greatly across species and underlying mechanisms
remain elusive. We previously showed that mammosphere-derived epithelial cells from …

The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research

AM Boddy - European Journal of Epidemiology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Sir Richard Peto is well known for proposing puzzling paradoxes in cancer biology—
some more well-known than others. In a 1984 piece, Peto proposed that after decades of …

Adaptation in the face of internal conflict: the paradox of the organism revisited

MM Patten, MA Schenkel, JA Ågren - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The paradox of the organism refers to the observation that organisms appear to function as
coherent purposeful entities, despite the potential for within‐organismal components like …

Comparative analysis of bats and rodents' genomes suggests a relation between non-LTR retrotransposons, cancer incidence, and ageing

M Ricci, V Peona, A Boattini, C Taccioli - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The presence in nature of species showing drastic differences in lifespan and cancer
incidence has recently increased the interest of the scientific community. In particular, the …

Ancient segmentally duplicated LCORL retrocopies in equids

K Batcher, S Varney, T Raudsepp, M Jevit, P Dickinson… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
LINE-1 is an active transposable element encoding proteins capable of inserting host gene
retrocopies, resulting in retro-copy number variants (retroCNVs) between individuals. Here …