Canada-US scientists isolate brain-aging gene

[canada.com] A research team has identified an ``important gene'' that regulates the aging process in the brain. Bernier said age is the primary risk factor for diseases such as macular degeneration, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. About 30 per cent of all people over 80 years old will develop Alzheimer's, he said. Bernier partnered with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California in a study that identified a mutation in mice that dramatically accelerates the process of aging in the brain and in the eye. More>