Evolution of ageing

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Summary

This work has shown that mortality may be due to an energy-saving strategy of reduced error regulation in somatic cells, which supports Orgel's ‘error catastrophe’ hypothesis and offers a new basis for the study of normal and abnormal ageing syndromes and of apparently immortal transformed cell lines.

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Published
1977-11-24
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Keywords

Ageing, Somatic cell, Biology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics

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