Showing posts with label Aging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aging. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Scientists Discover the Secret of Aging

Aging Man
By Clive Cookson
FT.com
2-15-10

     One of the biggest puzzles in biology – how and why living cells age – has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England.

The answer is complex, and will not produce an elixir of eternal life in the foreseeable future.

But the scientists expect better drugs for age-related illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease, to emerge from their discovery of the biochemical pathway involved in ageing.