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Scientists have successes to celebrate but must also cope with the sting of failures. In the way she handles both, Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó inspires others.
As money pours into aging research, the field can combine its many methods to home in on what underpins aging. Approaches differ, but researchers share the desire to not overpromise quick-fix anti-aging methods.
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. —Aristotle