Aging erodes genetic control, but that's flexible

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 14:01 in Biology & Nature

Biologists at Brown University have found a way to measure the effects of aging by watching the ebb and flow of chromatin, a structure along strands of DNA that either silences or permits gene expression. In several newly published experiments they show that gene silencing via chromatin in fruit flies declines with age.

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