Aging Fly Cell Atlas reveals how different cell types in the body age at different paces BCMHouston sciencemagazine
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, Genentech, Inc. and collaborating institutions are breaking a path in that direction. They report in the journal, the first Aging Fly Cell Atlas , a detailed characterization of the aging process in 163 distinct cell types in the laboratory fruit fly.
Dr. Stephen Quake, the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Stanford University and co-corresponding author of thepaper, said the new atlas provides a powerful, open-access resource for scientists to better understand the biology of aging.
The researchers also found that about 80% of all the cell types analyzed decreased the number of genes expressed, and 20% increased this number."We plan to study the mechanism of this observation in the future," said co-first author Dr. Tzu-Chiao Lu, postdoctoral associate in the Huffington Center on Aging.
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