(University of Southern California) Aging has had a bad rap since it has long been considered a consequence of biology's concentrated effort on enhancing survival through reproductivity. A new USC Dornsife computer model study may reshape modern understanding of the tradeoff of reproductivity and aging, antagonistic pleiotropy, as researchers find inherent aging, within a gene, may actually optimize functions of other genes.
from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2x5wYXf
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