Enzyme found to reverse aging process
NOV 29, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024861
Nature : Researchers at Harvard Medical School believe they are a step closer to reversing the aging process after rejuvenating worn-out organs in elderly mice. They found that premature aging can be reversed by reactivating an enzyme—telomerase—that protects the tips of chromosomes. It is possible that normal human aging could be slowed by reawakening the enzyme in cells where it has stopped working, according to Ronald DePinho, a cancer geneticist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who led the new study. “This has implications for thinking about telomerase as a serious anti-aging intervention,” he said.
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