Forever Young

Propagation of a species requires periodic cell renewal to avoid clonal senescence. Liu et al. (2010) now describe a new mechanism of cell renewal in budding yeast, in which damaged protein aggregates are transported out of the daughter buds along actin cables to preserve youthfulness.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guarente, Leonard Pershing (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2014-01-21T17:59:22Z.
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