Erika Hayasaki is a writer based in Southern California. She teaches in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine, and is a 2018 recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Award for Science and Environmental Reporting, a grant supporting her journalism on epigenetics.
Werner syndrome is teaching us more about what controls our genes, and may eventually help us find a way to slow ageing – or stop it altogether.
