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Don't shoot the messenger: How RNA could keep us young

  • Written by Elisa Lazzari, Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Sciences, University of California, San Diego
imageCell nucleus with RNA.From www.shutterstock.com

With over 75 million baby boomers in the U.S. alone, age-related diseases are a major concern in the health care system. The connection between aging and cancer has become a pillar in medicine: we know that as we age, our cells tend to accumulate damaging changes in their DNA, eventually becoming...

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