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Longevity Genes and Cancer
(Thursday August 17 2006)
 | As reported by the New Scientist, work in lower animals continues to increase our understanding of the fundamental links between aging and cancer: "The authors speculate that signalling pathways that control longevity may have coevolved with tumour-suppressive mechanisms. ... Intuitively it all makes sense. We see this nice, clear genetic link between the longevity and tumour pathways. Presumably this is at least partially responsible for making cancer an age-related disease. ... C. elegans shares many tumour-related genes with mammals, including the ones investigated in this study ... It's one more element that makes you think that the aging genes that we discover and study in worms might be worth studying in vertebrates." |
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