Aging
New findings from R.N. Salomon and co-authors in the area of aging published
Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, March 8th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Fly, "In order to better understand the pathology of aging in the fly we used standard techniques of surgical pathology to conduct a histologic screen of approximately 1400 adult male flies ranging in age from one to five weeks. We found that flies developed tumors of the testis and gut and that the incidence of these tumors increased with age."
"Aging is the greatest single risk factor for the development of tumors in the general human population. Here, we show for the first time that aging is also a risk factor for tumor development in flies," wrote R.N. Salomon and colleagues.
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