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Baboons, bacteria, and biological clocks address an age-old question

By Amanda Dawn Melin
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Abstract

Studying the fecal microbiota of wild baboons helps provide new insight into the factors that influence biological aging.

The paper

Amanda Dawn Melin

University of Calgary

eLife, 3 Dec 2024, Open access

doi.org/10.7554/elife.104715PubMed 39625754

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