Should we keep looking for a cure to aging?
Megan Lee explores the approaches being taken to stop aging in its tracks and the ethical issues these studies produce.
Megan Lee explores the approaches being taken to stop aging in its tracks and the ethical issues these studies produce.
Gene therapy has been used to safely reverse the biological clock in middle-aged mice. Ines Momodu-Herrero investigates this new finding and its implications for aging control in people.
People live messy lives: they make complex choices about what to eat, who to start a family with, and generally how to live their lives. Mice on the other hand are much simpler. They can live in a lab where their diet, mating and behaviour can be carefully monitored and controlled. This makes it far…