The process of biological aging or the state of an organism being biologically old.
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RHEB senses amino acids in order to recruit mTOR. Do we know if RHEB is more sensitive to some amino acids (like methionine) than other amino acids?
See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21157483 for the full paper describing the process of how RHEB recruits mTOR.
We also discussed this in Matt Kaeberlein's class yesterday and I posed this ...
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Is there any kind of immortality in plants?
I asked a question about immortality of hydra and leaned good things about senescence. Now I like to know about immortality signs in plants. If there is some kind of immortality in plants its process ...
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Difference In Telomeres Between A Thale Cress Plant And A Methuselah Tree
From what I have read and understood telomeres cap off how many times a cell can divide before it can no longer divide and that is what causes aging.
A thale cress plant apparently has a life cycle ...
