Old human cells rejuvenated in breakthrough discovery on aging:
"A new way to rejuvenate old cells in the laboratory, making them not only look
younger, but start to behave more like young cells, has been discovered by
researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Brighton.
A team led Professor Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University
of Exeter, has discovered a new way to rejuvenate inactive senescent cells. Within
hours of treatment the older cells started to divide, and had longer telomeres – the
‘caps’ on the chromosomes which shorten as we age.
This discovery, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, builds on earlier findings from the
Exeter group that showed that a class of genes called splicing factors are
progressively switched off as we age. The University of Exeter research team, working
with Professor Richard Faragher and Dr Elizabeth Ostler from the University of
Brighton, found that splicing factors can be switched back on with chemicals, making
senescent cells not only look physically younger, but start to behave more like young
cells and start dividing."
See:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/1...-on-aging.html