Monday, August 11, 2008

Cell change 'keeps organs young'

Toxic proteins build up in organs over time

Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades.

A US team thinks it may have found the genetic levers to help boost a system vital to cleaning up faulty proteins within our cells.

The journal Nature Medicine reported that the livers of genetically-altered older mice worked as well as those in younger animals.

Read more at BBC

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