| Show Longer Life Is Hope From Study of Age Scientists Hold Cells of Aged Animals Found to Grow Rapidly MILLIONS 1 I ILLIONS are alive today 1 YI who if they had been b born orn a generation or two ago would have fallen falten victims to s smallpox diphtheria or one of t st the Ile other great killers of former t times imes The disease fighters of modern medical science learned to c conquer these plagues only to be c confronted with other disease enemies ene ene- s ides mies of an entirely different sort- sort cancer heart find end kidney disease Diseases of the heart beart and blood vessels which today tOllay take first place as cause of death are due not so mu much h to germs and poisons tI n as to the process of growing old At Columbia university the problem problem lem tern is being attacked by a n study of the aging process Itself An Important Im irn first step was taken talea when one of the Columbia Investigators Dr Henry S. S Simms Simma found Cound that tint the body cells of aging animals will willi grow outside the body in what are i called coiled tissue cultures Just us os readily read read- ily lIy as cells from the bodies of very young oung animals Study Aging Process While the cells of aged agell will grow as fIS readily however howe an an- n- n Columbia scientist found tint some of these aged cells do not function as ns well It seems to depend depend de de- cie- cie pend on which organs of the body bOlly the tho cells came from This seems I fo to O parallel the fact that some organs of ot the tho body the heart for Instance wear out and are unable to keep goIng go- go Ing lag or functioning normally earlier than other r organs The cells from the lymph glands and the liver showed the greatest decrease In functional activity Long Time Required Just Jest how much significance Is to tobe tobe tobe be attached to these observations Is not known at present Dr James W. W v SoWing professor of pathology at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons said In describing the studies of aged tissues But Dut we hope to expand and con can this phase of the work for forIt it itis Is possible that here we ma may find some clew to the answers we are seeking Studies are also being conducted con coa ducted on cancer cancer- and sis |
