It was a surprise find for Italian biologist Camillo Golgi in 1898, who was researching the nervous system at the time, so it's fitting that University of California Riverside (UCR) scientists also stumbled across a particular aspect of the organelle in their study on plant stressors ?" and it's one that holds great promise for preserving cell longevity. "For us, this finding is a big deal," said study co-author Katie Dehesh, professor of molecular biochemistry at UCR. "For the first time, we have defined the profound importance of an organelle in the cell that was not previously implicated in the process of aging."