Why wait for mice? If I understand correctly, a lot of the symptoms common to aging also showup 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 them? If those synthetic cells do or don’t show typical signs of aging, that should be a strong sign either way, right?
Why wait for mice? 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 them? If those synthetic cells do or don’t show typical signs of aging, that should be a strong sign either way, right?