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STEM CELLS AND AGING

Our body is constantly repaired and renewed by tissue specific stem cells, which produce cells undertaking specialized functions and new stem cells maintaining the future renewal capacity. In a young body, such tissue stem cells can easily counter the wear and tear of everyday life by replacing damaged cells with new ones. However, as we age, capacity of stem cells declines, and the resulting drop in tissue repair manifests as the functional decline associated with aging. Our goal is to understand why stem cell activity deteriorates with age, and to develop stem cell based strategies targeting aging related diseases and ailments.
RESEARCH

Young stem cells renew tissues constantly, but old stem cells can no-longer produce cells for the function of the tissue at the required rate. The resulting decline manifests as aging.

PEOPLE

We started in 2013 and are now a group of about 30 pre- and post-doctoral researchers and technicians located at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

 

PUBLICATIONS

Metabolic determination of cell fate through selective inheritance of mitochondria. Döhla J, Kuuluvainen E, Gebert N, Amaral A, Englund JI, Gopalakrishnan S, Konovalova S, Nieminen AI et al.

 

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