This thing all things it devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down
What is the answer? Time.
Stephan Baehr studies the Biology of Aging. Baehr is currently researching molecular mechanisms of change over time in the Lynch lab with the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, at Arizona State University. Favorite sub-topics include mutation, mutation rates, mutation accumulation, and the physiological consequences thereof.