There is very little left to rejuvenate! Yeast cell lifespan increased by 82 percent

 

While every technique developed in the fight against diseases prolongs human life, scientists are working hard to delay aging. One of those studies is done in the USA. Scientists have discovered a new technique that increases the lifespan of yeast cells by 82 percent. This success, signed by researchers from the University of California in the USA, is seen as an important breakthrough in studies to slow down the aging process.

Scientists in the USA have discovered a new technique that increases the lifespan of yeast cells by 82 percent. This success, signed by researchers from the University of California, is seen as an important breakthrough in studies to slow down the aging process.

The research team programmed the cells to continually switch between the two pathways of aging. In the research cited by Independent Turkish, in other words, instead of the entire cell aging all at once, cells began to 'switch back and forth' between two common degradation processes.

I DOUBLE CELL LIFE WITH ITS GENE ACILATOR METHOD
Using breakthroughs in synthetic biology, the researchers allowed cells to continually choose between pathways that ultimately lead to death, rather than being bound by a single fate. Thus, he did not have to stay long on either road. This crossover technique, called the 'gene oscillator', served to extend the lifespan of the cell almost twice.

"These oscillations extended cellular lifespan by delaying submission to aging," the research article published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Science states. "Once a cell's fate is determined, the progression towards damage and death is accelerated," said Nan Hao, a senior author of the study.

'WE SEE THAT THE CELL PREVENTED ITS FATE DECISION'
“We clearly saw that when we got the cell to switch between two predetermined aging pathways, it prevented the cell from making that fateful decision. This allowed the cell to live longer.” Hao and colleagues have been working on cellular aging for 7 years and are largely focused on making this technique a reality.

The team believes that with the new experiments they have, for the first time, transformed this goal 'from an abstract idea to an executable idea'. The discovery could also be used in the future to prevent aging-related cellular deterioration in humans. However, it is still at the very beginning of the road.

“Our work could form the basis for designing synthetic gene circuits to effectively promote longevity in more complex organisms,” Hao said.