A new study, published in Aging Cell, has found that human ageing processes may hinder cancer development.
Ageing is one of the biggest risk factor for cancer. However, the biological mechanisms behind this link are still unclear.
Each cell in the human body is specialised to carry out certain tasks and will only need to express certain genes. Gene expression is the process by which specific genes are activated to produce a required protein.
Gene expression analyses have been used to study cancer and ageing, but only a few studies have investigated the relationship between gene expression changes in these two processes.
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