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Well, Ma'am, That's a 78-Year-Old Liver, But Your Gall Bladder Looks Like It's 17

Dec 05, 2007

Technology Review follows up on a paper from PLoS Genetics about aging differences between organs and species. The Stanford and National Institute on Aging scientists involved in the project have built a repository of gene expression changes in 16 different tissues over the life of mice. "The researchers' findings suggest that different tissues age very differently, and this could help pinpoint when it is appropriate to use mice as a model of human aging -- and when it's not," according to the article.

 

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