Life expectancy could grow 80% with this anti-aging breakthrough
Researchers from the University of California San Diego conducted a study to reprogram the cellular aging process.
Yeast cells have a transcriptional toggle switch that allows them to die in one of two ways: nucleolar decline or mitochondrial decay . However, the researchers were able to rewire the transcriptional switch into a negative-feedback loop, which caused the yeast cells to fluctuate between the two aging states — increasing their life span by 82%.
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