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Rejuvenating premature aging

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Two commonly prescribed drugs, statins and aminobisphosphonates, may be helpful in combating the rare aging disorder, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (pages 767–772).

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Figure 1: Lamin A modifications in a model of HGPS.

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  1. Eran Meshorer and Yosef Gruenbaum are in the Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Girat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. meshorer@cc.huji.ac.il or gru@vms.huji.ac.il,

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