Study shows aging may be caused by renegade genes
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 16:56
in Biology & Nature
Scientists studying worms found that metabolic processes important during development may shift later in life, causing unintentional sabotage. Countering the prevailing theory that aging is the accumulation of wear and tear in cells, scientists studying worms have found that aging may be hard-wired, a sort of unintentional sabotage by genes gone wild.