Questions about a laboratory assay are making Sirtris, a high-profile biotechnology company, the talking point of the ageing field. Heidi Ledford investigates.
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Ledford, H. Ageing: Much ado about ageing. Nature 464, 480–481 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464480a
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