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[Mind]

Surprising discovery: Multicellular response is 'all for one'

The findings have implications for new ways of thinking about diseases that affect the stress pathways, says Morimoto. Neurons that sense the environment govern such important pathways as stress response and molecular chaperones, which play a significant role in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.

Most research focus is on the individual cell level, perhaps a little more understanding of aging can be gained by discovering the roots of multicellular response.

[VictorBjoerk]

That sounds interesting, something I wonder is how the body can make difference between "negative" and positive stress and decide what kind of impact it's going to have on itself.

[Shepard]

That sounds interesting, something I wonder is how the body can make difference between "negative" and positive stress and decide what kind of impact it's going to have on itself.

Depending on what you mean, the degree of stress and the evolved ability of the organism to adapt to that stress is probably more important than the type.