Can a Transplanted Heart Become Biologically Younger? A Harvard Study Suggests It Can

Donor hearts appeared to adopt the biological age of their recipients, a finding that could eventually expand the pool of organs available for transplant.

BY LUCIA AUERBACH, NEWS WRITER

A new Harvard University study tracking the biological age of transplanted hearts found that the organs can adjust to their host’s biological age.

The study’s findings, published on the preprint server bioRxiv, found that hearts from young donors aged rapidly in........

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