This discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, could help lead to drugs and treatments that slow human aging and prevent cancer.

发表于美国实验生物学会联合会(FASEB)杂志的这项发现可能有助于开发延缓人类衰老、预防癌症的药物与疗法。

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Objective to identify and clone rat aging-related genes to provide clues for human aging mechanism.

目的鉴别和克隆小鼠衰老相关基因，为揭示人体衰老机制提供线索。

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The first sign for human aging is skin aging and looseness, while skin looseness results from weight fluctuation.

人衰老的第一个标志便是皮肤的老化和松弛，而皮肤的松弛是由体重波动引起的。

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Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.

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In 1995, the late Richard C Strohman, then emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote of the impossibility of Darwinian biology in explaining human aging and disease.

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But in recent years, he has lobbied NASA extensively to get the agency to use him for geriatric research, helping to connect the space agency's researchers with scientists eager to see how weightlessness may affect human aging.

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