dvunkannon
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http://www.pnas.org/content....3473110
Naked mole rats live a long time (for rats). Now it seems that they have a unique ribosome structure that increases the fidelity of protein construction. Fewer mistranslated, poorly folding proteins == less cancer, disease, etc.
And all because of a mutation (deletion) in a key ribosome component! Functional mutation FTW!!1!
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I’m referring to evolution, not changes in allele frequencies. - Cornelius Hunter
I’m not an evolutionist, I’m a change in allele frequentist! - Nakashima
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