Scientists find key to ageing process in hypothalamus

US team identifies mechanism deep in brains of mice that can be tweaked to shorten or lengthen lives


Scientists have found a biological command centre for the agein process in a lump of brain the size of a nut.
The US team identified the mechanism in the hypothalamus, which sits deep inside the brain, and showed they could tweak it to shorten or lengthen the lives of animals.

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Weiterleitung zum Artikel: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/01/scientists-ageing-process?CMP=twt_fd