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Scientists Discover Cause Of Vascular Aging — And How To Reverse It — In Mice

A technician holds a laboratory mouse at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School identifies key cellular mechanisms that cause blood vessels to age. Now, they’re looking for ways to apply what they found in mice studies to human health.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with David Sinclair (), the study’s senior investigator, a professor and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School.

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