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Whitman Fellow Asks Age-Old Question: What's Behind Our Biological Lifespans?
July 20, 2026
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, July 20 [Category: Biology] -- The Marine Biological Laboratory, an affiliate of the University of Chicago, posted the following news:

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Whitman Fellow Asks Age-Old Question: What's Behind Our Biological Lifespans?

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Why do some clams live to be over 500 years old, yet humans usually live to be less than 100? Matthew Harris, professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and MBL Whitman Fellow, is trying to . . .

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