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New study identifies Molecular Aging ‘Midlife Crisis’

Longevity‐related molecular pathways are subject to midlife ‘switch’ in humansAging Cell, 2019; e12970 DOI: 10.1111/acel.12970

Research provides a possible new reason why human disease burden increases so sharply from the sixth decade of life onward as health-protective mechanisms disappear.

Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate dean for therapeutic innovation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is senior author of a new study – Longevity Related Molecular Pathways Are Subject to Midlife ‘Switch’ in Humans – published today in Aging Cell.

Working with first author Jamie Timmons, Ph.D...

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