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d_silin • today at 9:36 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

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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etoxin • today at 10:25 PM

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.

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moffkalast • today at 10:37 PM

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

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