AGING: IS IT A POWER FAILURE? RESEARCHERS EXPLORE THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA

From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 2, 2004| Author: Alice Dembner Globe Staff | Copyright information

They are the power plants within our cells, crucial for life, and concentrated in the tissues that often deteriorate the most as we age the brain, the heart, the muscles, the eyes. But are the mitochondria a driving force in aging?

Increasingly, researchers are focusing on the possibility that this tiny element of a cell may be a factor in failing memory, increasing weakness, thinning hair, and other symptoms of aging.

The evidence is piling up but not yet definitive. It is groun...

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