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Science 17 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5763, pp. 934 - 935
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5763.934a
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MEDICINE:
Mouse Study Suggests Cancer Drugs Could Help Prematurely Aging Kids

John Travis

In a paper published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1124875), a research team reports that a drug originally developed to treat cancer can forestall symptoms in and increase the survival of mice with a disease similar to Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, an extremely rare genetic condition that causes what looks like premature aging. (Read more.)

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