This study shows that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the downregulation of active TE families extends lifespan. These findings link DNA activity to aging and opens up new possibilities in medical and biological research for health improvement and age determination. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40957- (open access)
I think the writers who wrote the article (not journal article) mixed it up with some other article because it didn’t make sense to me. Which is why I used the title of the research paper as the title of the post.
Somewhere in-between is probably the sweet spot for communication to a lay-audience