6/6) Spearheaded by Dr. Marva Bergman, with wonderful collaboration from @ayoubnlab and @AlexeiMaklakov
. “An Antagonistically Pleiotropic Gene Regulates Vertebrate Growth, Maturity, and Lifespan” is now in
@NatureComms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here they use killifish to reveal a stark genetic trade-off in aging. They found that disrupting the vgll3 gene accelerates early-life maturation and growth but directly increases the risk of age-rela...