Aging is a mosaic: some cells age faster, study reveals
TL;DR
Hebrew University researchers report that aging is not uniform across the body: individual cells age at different rates, identified by a DNA methylation aging signature. This mosaic of aging could enable new approaches to slow aging, improve cancer prevention, and aid early detection of other diseases (including via the Galleri test).
Topics:healthhealth-and-wellness#aging#cancer#dna-methylation#health-and-wellness#israel#single-cell
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