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Researchers explain how mushrooms can live for hundreds of years without getting cancer (phys.org)
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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Because these mutations are selected within the mycelium, but reduce the fitness of the mycelium as a whole, you can think of them as a kind of 'nucleus cancers.'"

Society has the same cancer problem. We need to develope clamp connections quickly.