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Aubrey de Grey Announces Progress in MitoSENS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-teTeyUPsJM ^Awesome news from the genetic bio-medicine battlefield front. My personal respect to the scientists fighting human diseases and disabilities day and night, is literally infinite. I am proudly donating to their research and will continue to do so in the light of this incredible success. This particular news is significant because mitochondria is part of human cells that produces our energy like little power-stations, using oxygen we breathe in, but the side-effect is damage from this ongoing chemical reaction of energy synthesis. (Usually called in popular culture as "free-radicals" oxidative damage.) The area of the cell taking most stress is where energy production happens - mitochondria. Mitochondria health is important because it houses a few of our genes we do not want damaged. To make a simplified example: whales live twice human lifespan (!!) because they breathe less than us allowing for less damage from oxygen. This news shows that we should be able to fix free radicals oxidation damage problem by transferring our genes from the mitochondria into the nucleus (central part) of our cells, which is farther away from where oxygen processing in the cell happens, making human genes less susceptible to damage. As biotech is becoming a wide-spread knowledge these days, do not fall behind in fundamental understanding of how human body works! Learn more at http://www.sens.org/