Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research

Re:Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research by felipemnoa on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:20PM (#20537069)

>>Of course if a cell lacks the basic components to divide its DNA it... won't divide?

The big thing here is that now they know that it is a lack of this particular substance causing the problem. Nobody could have guessed that this was the case. It is part of the debugging process. It provides a path for further discovery. Now they know where to focus their efforts.

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Re:Senescent cells stop producing nucleotides: new research by pkilgore on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:22PM (#20538443)

Thanks for a great answer. I suppose it's rather quite like discovering a program isn't entering a code path. Knowing that is the first step to figuring out why it doesn't create a side effect at the end. (Metaphors all suck, but...yeah).

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