Ironing out a midlife crisis.

Vergara, Sandra Viviana; Thiele, Dennis J · Cell · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

There is a strong correlation between age, genomic instability, and the development of cancer. Working in yeast, Veatch et al. (2009) now propose that defects in the biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters arising as a consequence of mitochondrial dysfunction contribute to the increase in genomic instability as cells age.

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