16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Stem Cells - What Are They?
There's exactly the same number of nerons in every c elegance. And for aging, that has some serious implications. For example, if you think about it, like there's this insolent receptor mutin called daftoo, which lives twice as long as wild type. It doesn't do that by turning over rid of damaged cells and growing new ones. It has to do it by keeping those cells healthy the whole life span. So what should you do to keep cell that you may have your whole life, like a brain cell? Am, what would you have to do to keep that cell alive?
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