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‘Hope for Healthy Longevity’: Study Discovers Trigger for Cell Aging

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Keiko Kono hopes to see a future where people are essentially healthy until the day they die. She believes her recent research—which shows that damage to the cell membrane promotes cell aging—could serve as a blueprint for scientists worldwide to find a way to do this. Her study was recently published in Nature Aging. Membrane Damage Switches Cell Fate “I discovered a new trigger of cell aging,” Ms. Kono, an assistant professor of membranology at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), told The Epoch Times, describing the culmination of her 10 years of research. Ms. Kono hopes the discovery will prompt additional research and future drugs that help prevent membrane damage....

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