SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HUMAN AGEING GENE IN FRUIT FLIES
Researchers from the University of Oxford and The Open University have found a gene
in fruit flies that would give a fast and effective way to investigate important aspects of
human ageing.
They have discovered the human ageing gene in fruit flies, which means the flies could
now be used as a model to study the effects ageing has on DNA.
“We study a premature human ageing disease called Werner Syndrome to help us
understand the normal ageing. The key to this disease is that changes in a single gene
(called WRN) that the patients age very quickly.
-dr. navraj singh sandhu, www.navraj@gmail.com