Biologists have just announced that they have determined what they believe to be the key mechanisms of aging. And, more importantly, they claim that with this knowledge they can now determine how to slow down and potentially reverse the process. “This is a beautiful example of how genomics, human stem cells and the new gene-editing technologies conjoin to provide major insights into human disease,” comments Rick Horwitz, who is the executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science. He also holds a position as a professor at the University of Virginia and goes on to sa...