Volume 24, No 1, Jan 2014

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 24 Issue 1, January 2014: 7-8

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

The disposable soma theory of aging in reverse

Peter M Douglas^1,2,3 and Andrew Dillin^1,2,3

¹California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA
²Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA
³University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3370, USA Correspondence: Andrew Dillin(dillin@berkeley.edu)

In a recent paper in Nature, Ermolaeva et al. uncover a systemic response to DNA damage in germ cells that protects somatic tissues, providing mechanistic insight into the bidirectional communication between germ line and soma.

10.1038/cr.2013.148

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