The Knight Science Tracker give newswriters good grades for not overplaying the story on the BU findings on aging and genetics.

The news got a boost from a Wednesday press telebriefing. With or without that, it would be big news. And with anti-aging anything comes an opportunity for reporters to screw up the news with a lot of hooray we soon will know how to live fordamnednearEVER blather. For the most part, media handled the news with appropriate caution.