and therefore lives shorter.
An animal's ability to maintain homeostasis not only depends on the amount of
energy it allocates to maintenance but also on the quality of the *tissue it produces.
And the quality of that tissue is at least partially due to the energy it invests in making
biomass. In other words, fancy stuff costs more to make but lasts longer.
My hope is that these results could be used as a framework to investigate how
differences in a person's development and growth rate affect their health, risk fo
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aging-related diseases and lifespan. It also opens a door to a new research area: [
(Adapted from Chen Hou, Grow fast, die young? Animals that invest in building high-qual
biomaterials may slow aging and increase their lifespans)
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