I'm no biologist, so I'll ping b_b and ask of this is something that could significantly impact our ability to slow the aging process? But mainly I pinged him as a way to ensure he read this re marriage:“The aging process we discovered is like a married couple—when they are young, they communicate well, but over time, living in close quarters for many years, communication breaks down,” said Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics David Sinclair, senior author on the study. “And just like with a couple, restoring communication solved the problem.”
Ha! I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip. As for the study, I think the work is cool, but we all need to read these press releases with a skeptical eye. Slowing or reversing aging in genetically altered mice isn't the same as doing it in normal mice. And just to temper a little bit, if you read the article itself, when the treatment was administered to old, non-genetically altered mice, there was some improvement in the look of the tissue, but not in the animal's muscle function, which is probably a bit more important. Cool study, and I think an important step for aging researchers, but not something to get carried away with, as the internet has a way of doing.