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(Image: Pixabay CC0) - Scientists led by groups at EPFL and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) explore the elaborate interplay between genes, sex, growth, and age and how they influence variation in longevity. Their results point at fundamental processes of aging that help in improving human healthspan. Aging, senescence, and death are given as inevitable. Some people age faster, some suffer from age-related diseases, and some die younger than others. Robert Williams at UTHSC who jump-started this project with Johan Auwerx at the EPFL in 2016 points out that " Finding common molecular denominators of aging differences is critical. Lifespan and health are under some level of genetic control that varies both within and between species. Once defined we can then intervene rationally.
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