With enough time, every blonde, brunette, and redhead goes silver, but scientists had been unable to pin down the cellular basis behind gray hair. By examining two strains of mutant mice, however, researchers finally have unveiled a root cause for this inevitable part of aging.
SHADES OF GRAY. Mice with mutations in the Bcl2 gene tend to go gray prematurely.
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