Could a Little Stress Be Healthy for Cells? New Study Says Yes!

“A little dab’ll do ya!” That was the Brylcreem slogan for their hair product some 60 years ago. Now, it seems, that researchers at Northwestern University are applying the same motto to mitochondrial stress and cellular health. In a genetic study of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans , the investigators found that signals from mildly stressed mitochondria prevent the failure of protein-folding quality-control (proteostasis) machinery in the cytoplasm that comes with age. Fin