Ageing, interrupted
Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
The current pace of population ageing is without parallel in human history but surprisingly little is known about the human ageing 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 ageing in the lab, allowing them to study ageing-related disease in a dish...