Bar-Ilan University researchers increase life expectancy in mice by an average of 30% (IMAGE)
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In a paper recently published by Nature Communications, an international team of researchers, led by Bar-Ilan University in Israel, report that transgenic mice express high levels of the SIRT6 gene and show that their life expectancy can be increased by an average of 30% in both males and females. The mice exhibited significant improvement in overcoming a variety of age-related diseases and conducted the same level of vigorous activity as young mice, without becoming frail. Through a variety of methods and analyses, the mechanism through which SIRT6 facilitates healthy aging was deciphered. Photo: Lead author Prof. Haim Cohen, of Bar-Ilan University, holds a well microplate used to monitor the activity of SIRT6 gene expression
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