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Drug rescues cells that age too fast

By Janet Raloff

- More than 2 years ago

From Munich, at the Euroscience Open Forum meeting

BAD FIBER. Bundles of fibers, a Werner syndrome hallmark, are abundant in an untreated cell (left). Most disappeared in a treated cell (right). Kipling/Cardiff Univ.

People with the rare genetic disease Werner syndrome appear to age at up to five times the normal rate. Furthermore, their cells and tissues undergo early senescence and death.