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Aging is one SIRTainty in life: for uni- and multicelular lifeforms!

In today’s issue of Cell magazine, an evolutionarily conserved protein, SIRT, takes the spotlight in the hit research drama, “Why we Weather with Age”. Researchers from Harvard Medical school demonstrate that the part SIRT plays in DNA damage control during aging may be to blame for some of the ugly symptoms of growing old.
Mammalian protein [...]