From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 12:01:57 MST
At 02:46 AM 11/10/98 EST, Greg Burch wrote:
>Thanks -- does that mean we could insert foreign mitochondria into mature
>cells? Is this a shortcut to rev up metabolism?
Prolonged life via mitochondrial repair or replacement is a topic well
addressed by the articulate and knowledgeable British expert Aubrey de
Grey, who hangs out on sci.life-extension. He's come up with a new
paradigm of mitochondrial ageing that has attracted an amount of interest
from his peers (and he's suggested some possible methods, based on that
model, for tweaking the system).
I discuss his work a little in my forthcoming THE LAST MORTAL GENERATION -
final draft about to go to the typesetters. (Oz publication only so far,
due early 1999.)
Damieh Broderick
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