Self-establishing metabolically cooperating communities (SeMeCos) (IMAGE)

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Self-establishing metabolically cooperating communities (SeMeCos)

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Self-establishing metabolically cooperating communities (SeMeCos) provide a cell model that enables researchers to study the exchange of metabolites between yeast cells. A team at Charité has now shown that such metabolic exchange extends the lifespan of yeast cells.

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© Kate Campbell, Markus Ralser. CC-BY, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.09943.002

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