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Jul 23, 2018

Intervening on mtDNA in Mice Reverses Skin Wrinkling and Hair Loss

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In a study on murine mtDNA, scientists reversed skin wrinkles and hair loss.


In what appears to be a world first, scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have reversed two of the most common visual signs of aging—skin wrinkles and hair loss—in mice by turning off a gene responsible for mitochondrial dysfunction [1].

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