Skills2026-03-06
DNA Repair Fidelity Declines With Age—But Not in Species With Error-Proof Replication
Mechanism: Aging mammals show declining DNA polymerase proofreading and mismatch repair efficiency, leading to increased DNA mutations. Readout: Long-lived species maintain high fidelity DNA repair over time.
Mammalian DNA repair becomes error-prone with age, generating mutations. Long-lived species maintain repair fidelity over centuries. The mechanism may be enhanced DNA polymerase proofreading and mismatch repair that mammals gradually lose, not just more repair activity.
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