Protein's Role in Chromosomal Divide Also Found to Have Role in Slowing Aging

From WIRED on 12 December 2012: [T]here’s hope that [Jan van Deursen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota] may have identified a new drug target to slow aging. “There [are] no negative consequences that he identified” to having more BubR1^{[editor's link]}, says Paul Hasty, who studies aging and DNA repair at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. “You need to figure out exactly what BubR1 is doing to achieve this desired effect,” he adds, but this could be the first step on a long path toward new treatments that delay aging—and possibly prevent cancer.

Baker et al./Nature Cell Biology