The secret of how Greenland sharks can live cancer-free for 400 years

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The secret of how Greenland sharks can live *******-free for 400 years

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A Greenland shark photographed near the seabed

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A genomic study may have revealed how Greenland sharks live for centuries and yet rarely get *******.

These sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) are slow-moving dwellers of the deep that can reach more than 6 metres long and weigh over a tonne. We know little about their lives because they roam in dark, cold waters, but it is thought they don’t reach ******* maturity until they are 150 years old and their lifespan has been estimated at about

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, making them the longest-living vertebrates that we know of.

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