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The popular science article I'll point out today does a fair job of following the past decade or so of work arising from heterochronic parabiosis, in which the circulatory systems of a young animal and an old animal are joined. The young animal exhibits some degree of accelerated aging, while […]

This paper is interesting as a first step on the way to further research into compensatory therapies that can reduce the cardiac muscle dysfunction of heart failure. One-time radiation therapy appears to persistently change cardiomyocyte behavior via altered epigenetic regulation of notch signaling, leading to modestly improved heart tissue function. […]