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Healthy Aging
Healthy Aging
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Professor Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, co-first author Hsin-Kai Liao and colleagues developed a novel CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing therapy that can suppress the accelerated aging observed in mice with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that also afflicts humans. The treatment provides insight into the molecular pathways involved in accelerated aging, as well as how gene therapy can be used to reduce toxic proteins.

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