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The African Turquoise Killifish: A Model for Exploring Vertebrate Aging and Diseases in the Fast Lane.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2015
Harel Itamar, Brunet Anne
Abstract excerpt
Why and how organisms age remains a mystery, and it defines one of the biggest challenges in biology. Aging is also the primary risk factor for many human pathologies, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, manipulating the aging rate and potentially postponing the onset of these devastating diseases could have a tremendous impact on human health. Recent studies,...
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