View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Now, in the new study, Sinclair and his colleagues tested whether this relocalization of chromatin modifiers is involved in aging. To do so, they ...

In their latest study, published in Nature Aging on March 7, first author Lorna Jayne, Hrvatin, and colleagues show that inducing a prolonged torpor-like state in mice slows down epigenetic changes ...

By the 9-month mark, the torpor-like state had reduced blood epigenetic aging in these mice by approximately 37%, making them biologically three months younger than their control counterparts.

Details of this study done in mice have been published in a Science Advances paper titled, “Aging activates escape of the silent X chromosome in the female mouse hippocampus.” In it ...