Tweet Edit: I was forwarded a convincing skeptical argument that because C. elegans lacks dividing cells and DNA repair genes that function like higher organisms likely because it doesn’t live as long, it might have a greater protective response to superoxide. Longer-living organisms have cancer to worry about so cells may allow senescence to occur [...]
Category archives for Ageing
Tweet I am constantly on the lookout for studies on how biochemical mechanisms shift with age, the significance of these changes and how nutrition and lifestyle interact with them to potentially affect health. Ageing itself is clearly an immensely complex process, and teasing out changes caused from ageing itself rather than known variables that effect health is [...]