Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole-rats offer tantalizing hints
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Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole-rats offer tantalizing hints

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 7, 202613 min

Nature staff discuss how animal studies are starting to uncover how DNA repair could prolong life, and how COVID-19 can reawaken dormant viruses. 00:25 Could reawakened viruses have a link to long-COVID? Nature: COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you 05:57 DNA damage can cause ageing, could boosting repair boost longevity? Nature: ​​​​​​​Could mending damaged DNA prolong life?​​​​​​​ Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i

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Hello and welcome to the Briefing Chat Show, the Friday show where we talk about a couple of stories that have been highlighted in The Nature Briefing. Well actually, The Nature Briefing itself is on holiday this week but we are still here, rest assured listeners, we have stories for you and joining me this week is Charmoni Bundell to tell me about

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hers. What have you got for us this time, Charmoni? So I've had to skip the briefing and go straight to Nature.com where I found a cool news story about long Covid, which is interesting and mysterious and causing a lot of problems for a lot of people.

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People who have Covid-19, have an infection, get ill and then certain symptoms carry on for months and months and months and can be really debilitating. And this study is looking at the link between long COVID and dormant viruses that live secretly inside us that you might have in your body right now, but not even know about

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