How Dietary Restriction Slows Down Aging

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Mon, 04/21/2008 - 16:00

Scientists have uncovered details about the mechanisms through which dietary restriction slows the aging process.

Working in yeast cells, they have linked ribosomes, the protein-making factories in living cells, and Gcn4, a specialized protein that aids in the expression of genetic information, to the pathways related to dietary response and aging.


 

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