Thursday 19 January 2017

Forget blood transfusions, the fountain of youth could be closer to hand

Forget blood transfusions, the fountain of youth could be closer to hand

There has been a lot of hype and hope over transfusing old people with young blood in an attempt to rejuvenate the body in a similar manner to earlier Heterochronic parabiosis experiments, where the circulatory systems of an old and a young mouse are linked and some level of rejuvenation was observed[1]. Many researchers initially thought that the positive results in these tests were due to there being pro-youthful signals in the young blood, however more recent research suggests that the likely reason is the dilution of pro-aging factors present in the old blood rather than there being any “secret sauce” in young blood.

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