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Health Related Forums => Health News and Events => Topic started by: Dr.Adnan on June 16, 2011, 10:42:29 PM
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(Reuters) - The same mechanism that causes children with a rare genetic disease called progeria to age at seven times the normal rate may play a role in normal aging as well, government researchers said.
The study led by Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, suggests aging may not simply be a gradual wearing out of cells.
Instead, it may be an active biological mechanism -- one that might be tinkered with to address age-related diseases.
"I think a lot of people in the past have assumed that the aging of cells and of individuals was just a matter of everything running down," Collins told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"What we are learning at the cellular level ... is that is not right," said Collins, whose study appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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