Key protein may explain the anti-ageing and anti-cancer benefits of dietary restriction
Friday, May 22, 2009 - 09:42
in Biology & Nature
A protein that plays a key role in tumour formation, oxygen metabolism and inflammation is involved in a pathway that extends lifespan by dietary restriction. The finding, which appears in the 22 May 2009 edition of the on-line journal PLoS Genetics, provides a new understanding of how dietary restriction contributes to longevity and cancer prevention and gives scientists new targets for developing and testing drugs that could extend the healthy years of life...