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Aging doesn't look the same for everyone at the molecular level — it's 'individualized and context-dependent'

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Aging doesn't look the same for everyone at the molecular level — it's 'individualized and context-dependent'
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People who are the exact same chronological age can undergo very different molecular changes as they grow older, a new study finds."Molecular aging is dynamic and unique to each person," said study co-author Julia El-Sayed Moustafa, a computational genomics researcher at King's College London. Even if you and your friend were born the same day, the activity of some of your genes might ramp up while the same genes in your friend dial down. The same is true for metabolites, which are small molecul

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