[T]he '' contends that ageing and many of... [its associate… - Nick Lane

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[T]he '' contends that ageing and many of... [its associated] diseases... are caused by... free radicals leaking from mitochondria during normal . ...As they burn up food using oxygen, the free-radical sparks escape to damage adjacent structures ...Many cruel inherited conditions... are linked with mutations caused by free radicals attacking mitochondrial genes.

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About Nick Lane

(born 1967) is a British and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary at University College London. He has published five books to date which have won several awards.

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It does seem to me, from our experience of life on earth that allows you to... step up, by probably orders of magnitude in just how much life can take over a planet.

A single discovery tomorrow could disprove everything I'm saying now. That's quite thrilling. ...We have been looking for several hundred years since Leeuwenhoek and we've not found anything really shocking that falls out of the system.

I'm not particularly... eucaryocentric, but I do think there is a problem to solve there. ...There is a difference in morphology ...

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