{
  "id": 12326754,
  "title": "Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/old-hearts-become-biologically-younger-when-transplanted-into-younger",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-06T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/0419213/old-hearts-become-biologically-younger-when-transplanted-into-younger-people"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It might be reasonable to think that there's an indelible link between the heart and the body it resides in -- the processes that affect one inevitably affect the other. But a new preprint, uploaded to bioRxiv and yet to be peer-reviewed, suggests that this may only be true up to a point. Take the heart out of the body and put it in a new one,…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}