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First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed

In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.
  1. Alison Abbott
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A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age.

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Nature 573, 173 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02638-w

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  1. Fahy, G. M. et al. Aging Cell https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13028 (2019).

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