USC News recognized a study by Longevity Institute’s Pinchas Cohen, dean of the USC Davis School of Gerontology. Cohen states: “The findings are an important advance that will be ripe for rapid translation into drug development for diseases of aging.”
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Gene protects women from heart disease, study finds
USC News noted a study by Longevity Institute’s Hooman Allayee. “The study represents one of the first female-specific genetic associations for heart disease,” Allayee said. “Women who carried a variant of the CPS1 gene had about a 12 percent decreased risk for heart disease. But