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Mitochondria

In Our Time: Science

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The Role of Mitochondria in Aging

The way that medicine has been structured over hundreds of years has been focused on specific organs and degeneration of particular organs. But there's something about the process of aging and the role of mitochondria in aging that mean that instead of it being as organ specific, it's really about the system as a whole. We don't know how it will progress, we're just diving in and seeing where it takes us at the moment. One area that's quite exciting at the moment is effectively mitochondrial transplants.

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