Rejuvenating Old Cells
January 16, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
While it is generally known that the human genome of some 20,000 genes expressing some two million proteins of the human proteome, the fine points of this process is still unfolding. Splicing factors—proteins that cut and rejoin gene sequences—are responsible for a single gene encoding many proteins, and a slow decline in splicing factor activity is the essence of senescence. British scientists have found that reversatrol analogues (this piece doesn’t identify which analogue, but most likely it is hexahydroxystilbene) reverses the effects of advanced aging, presumably through free radical scavenging. MORE
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