Zombie Cells Are Hiding in Your Body, Could Killing Them Stop Aging?
After killing senescent “zombie” cells in mice, researchers were able to extend the mice's lives by 25%. But what are these hidden cells? Is Young Blood The ...
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I’m going to start this episode by bumming you out: everybody dies eventually. Even if you manage to avoid bear attacks or grievous bodily harm, something in your own body will go wrong sooner or later. Usually later though, since age is the single biggest risk factor for disease. Strangely, we don’t really understand why our bodies deteriorate as we age, and so we don’t know how to prevent it. But there are a few scientists who think they know how to stop the relentless march of time, and they figured it out by accident. The researchers in question were studying why some cells in our bodies become cancerous. They believed turning off a gene called BubR1 could be the culprit, so they genetically engineered mice with BubR1 deactivated. But the mice didn’t develop tumors as exp...
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I’m going to start this episode by bumming you out: everybody dies eventually. Even if you manage to avoid bear attacks or grievous bodily harm, something in your own body will go wrong sooner or later. Usually later though, since age is the single biggest risk factor for disease. Strangely, we don’t really understand why our bodies deteriorate as we age, and so we don’t know how to prevent it. But there are a few scientists who think they know how to stop the relentless march of time, and they figured it out by accident. The researchers in question were studying why some cells in our bodies become cancerous. They believed turning off a gene called BubR1 could be the culprit, so they genetically engineered mice with BubR1 deactivated. But the mice didn’t develop tumors as exp...
