ReviewGenes2021
No Time to Age: Uncoupling Aging from Chronological Time.
Review in Genes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Morphological, Behavioral, and Transcriptomic Life Cycle of Anthrobots.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Exploring the Relationship of Transposable Elements and Ageing: Causes and Consequences.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Review
- Epigenetic age acceleration in follicular fluid and markers of ovarian response among women undergoing IVF.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Harnessing Genetics to Extend Lifespan and Healthspan: Current Progress and Future Directions.Cureus · 2024Review
- Partial cellular reprogramming: A deep dive into an emerging rejuvenation technology.Aging cell · 2024Review
- Ageing as a software design flaw.Genome biology · 2023Review
- Turning Back the Clock: A Retrospective Single-Blind Study on Brain Age Change in Response to Nutraceuticals Supplementation vs. Lifestyle Modifications.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The RNA-Seq data analysis shows how the ontogenesis defines aging.Frontiers in aging · 2023Article
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- Nutritional senolytics and senomorphics: Implications to immune cells metabolism and aging - from theory to practice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Mutation or not, what directly establishes a neoplastic state, namely cellular immortality and autonomy, still remains unknown and should be prioritized in our research.Journal of Cancer · 2022Review
- Role of Melatonin in Angiotensin and Aging.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Multicellular life evolved from simple unicellular organisms that could replicate indefinitely, being essentially ageless. At this point, life split into two fundamentally different cell types: the immortal germline representing an unbroken lineage of cell division with no intrinsic endpoint and the mortal soma, which ages and dies. In this review, we describe the germline as clock-free and the soma as clock-bound and discuss aging with respect to three DNA-based cellular clocks (telomeric, DNA methylation, and transposable element). The ticking of these clocks corresponds to the stepwise progressive limitation of growth and regeneration of somatic cells that we term somatic restriction. Somatic restriction acts in opposition to strategies that ensure continued germline replication and regeneration. We thus consider the plasticity of aging as a process not fixed to the pace of chronological time but one that can speed up or slow down depending on the rate of intrinsic cellular clocks. We further describe how germline factor reprogramming might be used to slow the rate of aging and potentially reverse it by causing the clocks to tick backward. Therefore, reprogramming may eventually lead to therapeutic strategies to treat degenerative diseases by altering aging itself, the one condition common to us all.
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