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Comment by d_silin

1 hour ago

There is an observation that donated organs sync to a biological age of the recipient.

https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-be...

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moffkalast  2 minutes ago

So in theory you could keep an organ alive perpetually if you kept transplanting it every fifty or so years?

etoxin  14 minutes ago

Yeah, this had me thinking. Does transplanting older organs into younger bodies force the body to rejuvenate the transplanted organ to the recipients age.

Edit: your article say so, neat.

  • WhyNotHugo  6 minutes ago

    I vaguely recall that it's the blood itself which has a big impact — to the point where blood transplants from younger blood could (temporarily) "rejuvenate" an older metabolism.