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The old worm turns more slowly

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Detailed studies of cellular changes in ageing nematode worms show that they, like humans, suffer progressive muscle deterioration. Randomness of cell damage is another shared hallmark of the ageing process.

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Figure 1: Lifespan distributions for individual Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes in isogenic populations of wild-type (green) and long-lived age-1 (purple) strains.

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