'Old Food' Diet Experiment Shows Molecular Changes Can Shorten Lifespan (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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'Old Food' Diet Experiment Shows Molecular Changes Can Shorten Lifespan (2 of 2)

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Experimental design of this study included (A) yeast (S. cerevisiae), (B) fruitflies (D. melanogaster), and (C) mice (M. musculus). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 17 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.-G. Lee at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Age-associated molecular changes are deleterious and may modulate life span through diet."

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[Credit: Lee <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1601833]

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