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.
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