Genetics of ageing and cancer resistance
Saturday, November 15, 2008 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
In the 15 November issue of G and D, Dr Kenneth Dorshkind and colleagues at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA) have identified two genes - p16(Ink4a) and Arf - that sensitise lymphoid progenitor cells to the effects of ageing, and confer resistance to leukaemogenesis...