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Carlos López-Otín

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Spanish biochemist at the University of Oviedo, best known for his work on the molecular hallmarks of ageing and on rapid-ageing diseases such as progeria. His laboratory's 2022 collaboration with Maria Pascual-Torner produced the first complete genome of the immortal jellyfish, framing it as a comparative-genomics window onto why most animals senesce and a few do not.

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