Aging, interrupted (w/ Video)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

The current pace of population aging is without parallel in human history but surprisingly little is known about the human aging process, because lifespans of eight decades or more make it difficult to study. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have replicated premature aging in the lab, allowing them to study aging-related disease in a dish.

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