Has This Scientist Finally Found The Fountain Of Youth? - MIT Technology Review

There's some weird science happenin where elderly mice are being given a new lease on life by tweaking DNA. It may not have the same romance of Ponce de Leon quaffing magical waters, but Izpisúa Belmote and pals are still trying to figure out how these epigenetic tweaks are becoming a thorn in the side of Atropos. Click on over for a healthy dose of gee-whiz sensawunda, cats and kittens! In oter news, by way of Ashley Cowie, The Human Thumb Just Got 500,000 Years Older by modelling muscles on hominin fossils, deepening humanity's history for being ever-so handy. (CS)

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