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Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
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A new study raises further doubts about the ability of proteins called sirtuins to slow aging, but the controversy remains unsettled.
Stretching muscle cells as they grow helps promote the expression of growth factors.
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