PNAS Study Examines Effect of Age on Cell Division Rates, More

Sep 24, 2019

Cell division rates dwindle as people age, researchers led by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Bert Vogelstein report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. They collected tissue samples from the colon, duodenum, esophagus, and sinuses of 13 people between the ages of 20 and 29 and of 13 people between the ages of 80 and 89.

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