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Transplanted Hearts May Take On the Biological Age of Their New Body
Original: A Heart’s Biological Age Can Apparently Shift Depending on the Body It Is Transplanted Into
New reporting suggests a transplanted heart's biological age can shift after it is placed into a recipient's body, meaning the organ may age faster or slower depending on whose body it now belongs to. The finding points to the recipient's internal environment influencing cellular ageing of donor hearts, a development that could matter for transplant medicine and how long donor organs last.
Why now: The surprising idea that an organ's ageing is shaped by its new body challenges assumptions about donor organs and has implications for transplant outcomes.
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- A Heart’s Biological Age Can Apparently Shift Depending on the Body It Is Transplanted Into · ZME Science
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