Ad - leaderboard

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Key to aging found?

What exactly is the genetic switch that Dr. Morimoto and his colleagues at Northwester discovered? The story begins eight hours into the life of the C. elegans worm, when their stress protective mechanisms suddenly go into decline. After the first telltale indicators of cellular stress begin occurring, the worm's body rapidly deteriorates and in a number of weeks the creature is dead.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/211044-scientists-discover-genetic-pathway-responsible-for-aging