Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging

I know it’s cowardly to post this from an anonymous account, but I don’t believe this work, because the scientist, Andy Dillin is a fraud. A friend was a student in his lab and discovered something that disproved a key paper Dillin built his career on, and Dillin took him off the project and covered it up.

I hope this is true because it would be an amazing breakthrough, but Dillin is the type to fabricate breakthroughs to further his career.

The discussion of this same article on a different site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917749

It's exactly the same article text and author.

“one based on signals passed between mitochondria, the organelles best known as the powerhouse of the cell.”

Glad to see the meme is alive.

Interesting takeaway was: defective mitochondria extended life

From article: "Yet for some reason, gumming up the smooth functioning of the mitochondria compelled the worms to live longer."