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University of Rochester biologist Vera Gerbanova had good reason to be interested in animals that can live more than 200 years.
She connected with an Alaskan Inuit community that provided her with tissue samples from animals collected during their subsistence hunt.
She and her colleagues found that bowhead cells were far better at DNA repair than human cells, an ability due, at least in part, to a particular protein.
Girbanova says boosting the level of this protein in humans might one day help slow down our accumulation of mutations, reducing the risk of cancer.
Over the years, the UNICEF initiative has been championed by celebrities.
It's raised a total of $200 million, paying for food, vaccines, and school supplies.
And it's raised awareness among American children of the needs of kids elsewhere in the world.
Charles Kenney is with the Center for Global Development think tank.
Trick or treat for UNICEF began a decade before USAID was established.
Now it appears to have outlasted the foreign aid agency, which the Trump administration has dismantled.
A new study examined the ancient DNA found in the teeth of 13 of Napoleon's soldiers exhumed from a mass grave in Lithuania.
Researchers found that two bacteria, one that causes paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, had likely helped kill the men.
These results, along with earlier work, reveal the soldiers were under microbial assault on all fronts.
Michaela Binder is a bioarchaeologist who wasn't involved in the study.
A relief, she says, from bodies riddled with disease.
For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
I'm in the middle of Beirut and there are cars and trucks and motorcycles everywhere.
There are various reasons why cancer is up in Lebanon.