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Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging
- rgbrenner 3y agoThe discussion of this same article on a different site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917749 It's exactly the same article text and author.
- roflchoppa 3y ago“one based on signals passed between mitochondria, the organelles best known as the powerhouse of the cell.” Glad to see the meme is alive.
- CaffeinatedDev 3y agoInteresting takeaway was: defective mitochondria extended life From article: "Yet for some reason, gumming up the smooth functioning of the mitochondria compelled the worms to live longer."
- _yb2s 3y agoI know it’s cowardly to post this from an anonymous account, but I don’t believe this work, because the scientist, Andy Dillin is a fraud. A friend was a student in his lab and discovered something that disproved a key paper Dillin built his career on, and Dillin took him off the project and covered it up. I hope this is true because it would be an amazing breakthrough, but Dillin is the type to fabricate breakthroughs to further his career.