JAWSOME:Sharks have thrived in the sea for more than 400 million years (Image: GETTY)
New research into the great white shark has found a range of mutations that may fight the disease, as well as other age-related conditions. Researchers also claim that due to the sharks’ huge and extraordinary genetics, the beasts could also help enhanced wound-healing. The scientists have detected numerous genetic traits within the sharks that help explain their evolutionary success.
These include molecular adaptation to support genomic stability such as DNA repair and DNA damage tolerance.
The opposite effect occurs for the great white shark, due to adaptations in genes involved in preserving genome integrity.
A genome is the genetic material of an organism.
The great white shark boasts huge genomes, which due to its size should promote a high incidence of instability, with much more DNA and many more cells seemingly vulnerable as targets for damage through an accumulation of routine mutations.
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