There are dozens of movies, books and stories that explore the possibilities of amazing cures for all kinds of diseases hidden within the depths of the Amazon Rain Forest, atop high peaks in the Andes Mountains, or on mysterious volcanoes where it’s too hot to even venture.

But scientists have recently been studying a possible real-life solution for longevity and even immortality in a very ordinary place.

There are many varieties of trees that have incredible lifespans, but among them the palm has one of the longest. For this reason, researchers at the University of Leeds studied the genetic makeup of this tree to see what longevity secrets it might be holding.

One of the key differences between plants, which can have amazingly long lifespans, and animals, which typically do not, is the makeup of the cellular structure.

Animals have a relatively fixed cell organization compared to plants, such that organs and certain tissues that die can’t regenerate. Plants differ in that aspect, as many species have regenerative characteristics.

The difference between palm trees and other, denser hard-wood trees is that palm tree cells can remain alive throughout its entire lifespan, as opposed to the hard-wood trees. Their cells eventually die and comprise the dead, outer material of the trunk. While a tree can live to be more than 2 or even 3 thousand years, most of is cells are only at most a hundred years old.

That is why there is such a focus on the longevity of the palm cells, which the authors maintain is lacking in the curricula of most modern plant biology fields of study.

Finding the similarities and differences in palm and animal metabolism may unlock future opportunities to extend human life and eliminate disease.

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