Revealing More About the Mysteries of Aging

Broadly, we know what aging is; our bodies get older as time goes on and they begin to decline in a variety of ways. From one person to another, there are huge variations in how that happens, and some people have much shorter or longer periods in which they are healthy, or differences in lifespan. But despite many years of intense research, many of the the biological mechanisms that underlie aging remain elusive and somewhat mysterious.

There are certain things that have been connected with aging cells, such as telomeres, which cap the ends of…