1/6) What if aging begins, in part, as a bargain made in youth? In turquoise killifish, editing vgll3—a gene linked to puberty-timing in humans and salmon—revealed one of the first causal single-gene examples of antagonistic pleiotropy in vertebrate aging 🧵
Itamar Harel
@itamarh.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Genetics @ the Hebrew University, and a dad. Experimental biology of vertebrate aging and related diseases using the killifish model