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Published online 3 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020101-2
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Cancer-proof mice age prematurely
Frailty could be the price old bodies pay for a cancer-free youth.
Too much of a cancer-preventing protein causes mice to age prematurely, researchers have found. The result suggests that mammals may have to strike a balance between stamping out cancer and succumbing to old age1.
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