Part of a series on the Hallmarks of Aging. Proteins don’t do everything in your body, but it’s fair to say they control everything. What they don’t d...
The Hallmarks of Aging: Epigenetic Alterations
All cells in your body have the same DNA, yet they express different proteins and do different things. How does that happen? Various alterations in y...
The Hallmarks of Aging: Telomere Attrition
Part of the Hallmarks of Aging series. What–and why–are telomeres? The chromosomes that store your genetic information are capped at each ...
Your DNA ages too: Genomic instability as a hallmark of aging
Part of the Hallmarks of Aging series. The cells in our bodies are constantly churning out proteins and other structures, built according to the bluep...
The hallmarks of aging, in plain English
Part of the Hallmarks of Aging series. Did you know you have two different ages? The obvious one is chronological age, or the number of years since yo...