The new ironic truth is that scientists and biologists are probing into graveyards to veil clues of longevity. What scientists are looking for in graveyards are a new enzyme with the ability to remove old cells.
They merely perfect human metabolism does constantly accumulate tiny waste chemicals, which the body is unable to remove. The garbage keeps on increasing in the body through a “recycling process” called the lysosomes. We can consider lysosomes to be the waste left-over from cells. However, there is an enzyme present within it that can break-down cellular remains. The increasing stocking of waste induces problems, particularly to cell population that lives for a long-time, for example, those cells in the brain and nervous system. The very fact that recycling cells does not work properly can cause severe damage if not even death. Solutions have to be found to this puzzle.
There are elaborate explanations given to how cell break-down large molecules and structures into specific components. According to reason in www.fightaging.org, here are also many ways to achieve such a change to cellular structures. Regrettably, a prime cause of the breaking down effect is that some particular cchemicalshave been altered and does no longer work. Even worse, in some circumstances some of the chemical components have been too badly mmodified,and the cell’s degradation operations do not work on these complex chemical structures. It is true that the situation is uncommon but during years these chemicals do accumulate.
The outcome is that these rare chemical turns into lysosomes. These unique vessels have the finest degradation machinery present in the cell. In other words, if it isn’t broken down there then it will simply remain there perpetually. The good thing is that this doesn’t even matter in cells that constantly undergo cell division as the junk is sliced and diluted into low and harmless volumes. However, in non-dividing cells as the junk accumulated the cell will gradually become dysfunctional. The cells of the brain, heart, eye, nerve (particularly motor neurons) as well as almost all white blood cells present in artery walls are exposed to this permanent risk of junk accumulation.
SENS Foundation’s has named one special method of removing a class of harmful waste chemicals, which do accumulate in our cells as we grow older as Medical Bioremediation. The progress of new therapies for biomedical remediation is classified into two special lines. The first one is finding bacterial enzymes that do naturally digest unwanted junk chemicals. There is already solid evidence confirming that these enzymes do exist, as no remains of these chemical junks can be found on battlefields, graveyards, slaughterhouse grounds or other similar areas. Currently, SENS Foundation is actively funding the discovery of such enzymes that could be used for the human body. Some positive result has during the recent years been achieved in the studies carried out.
The other branch of biomedical remediation research is to inject the enzymes to precise location in the body such as the lysosomes present in our cells. It is lucky that scientists are already well researched into this particular part of cells. It is currently possible to inject enzymes into a patient’s lysosomes. This biomedical remediation is geared at rejuvenating and restoring the malfunctioning/dysfunctional aspect of cells in elder people.
In the quest towards better medical support for elders, scientists are digging the graveyards for hints. Research is amazingly progressing with outside the box ideas.
Source: Maximum Life Foundation
Mon, Aug 16, 2010
Bioscience, Nanotechnology