Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across-the-body-talk-to-each-other-about-aging-20240108/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across-the-body-talk-to-each-other-about-aging-20240108/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:08:44 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=133857 The post Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Aging can seem like an unregulated process: As time marches along, our cells and bodies inevitably accumulate dings and dents that cause dysfunctions, failures and ultimately death. However, in 1993 a discovery upended that interpretation of events. Researchers found a mutation in a single gene that doubled a worm’s life span; subsequent work showed that related genes, all involved in the response...

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