Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Ageing

Microarraying mortality

Nature volume 424, pages 259–261 (2003)Cite this article

Understanding how we grow old is a long-sought goal. A new large-scale study of gene expression in worms allows us to glimpse the complex biochemistry of lifespan.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: Ageing versus long life: the molecules involved.

References

  1. Partridge, L. & Gems, D. Nature Rev. Genet. 3, 165–175 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Murphy, C. T. et al. Nature 424, 277–284 (2003).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Ogg, S. et al. Nature 389, 994–999 (1997).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Lin, K., Dorman, J. B., Rodan, A. & Kenyon, C. Science 278, 1319–1322 (1997).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Kimura, K. D., Tissenbaum, H. A., Liu, Y. & Ruvkun, G. Science 277, 942–946 (1997).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Kenyon, C., Chang, J., Gensch, E., Rudener, A. & Tabtiang, R. Nature 366, 461–464 (1993).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Tatar, M. et al. Science 292, 107–110 (2001).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Holzenberger, M. et al. Nature 421, 182–187 (2003).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Sohal, R. S. & Weindruch, R. Science 273, 59–63 (1996).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. McElwee, J., Bubb, K. & Thomas, J. H. Aging Cell 2, 111–121 (2003).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. the Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    David Gems & Joshua J. McElwee

Authors
  1. David Gems
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Joshua J. McElwee
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to David Gems.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Gems, D., McElwee, J. Microarraying mortality. Nature 424, 259–261 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424259a

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/424259a

This article is cited by

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing