Better Cellular Trash Removal Can Extend Lives?

One of Aubrey de Grey's Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) aims to improve the ability of cells to remove accumulated intracellular trash. Accumulation of damaged proteins and other cellular components is one of the causes of aging. With this thought it mind it is interesting to look at research research where by turning up the parkin protein (whose malfunction is implicated in Parkinson's Disease) UCLA scientists were able to extend the lives of fruit flies. UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, they say, could have important implications for aging and disease in humans. The gene,...
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