Will Yeast 2.0 mother cells age more slowly than normal yeast?
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By 2030, will peer-reviewed studies find that Yeast 2.0 mother cells have a significantly increased replicative lifespan compared to wild-type S. cerevisiae?
https://bioplatforms.com/project/yeast-2-0/
If I understand correctly, a lot of the symptoms common to aging also show up in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The goal of the synthetic yeast project 2.0 was among other things creating chromosomes without retrotransposons, and they recently finished synthesising all 16 chromosomes, so all that is left should be assembling. If those synthetic cells do or don't show typical signs of aging, that should be a strong sign if retrotransposons are the root cause of aging.
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