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Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice
‘Reprogramming’ approach seems to make old cells young again.
www.nature.com
Researchers have restored vision in old mice and in mice with damaged retinal nerves by resetting some of the thousands of chemical marks that accumulate on DNA as cells age. The work, published on 2 December in Nature1, suggests a new approach to reversing age-related decline, by reprogramming some cells to a ‘younger’ state in which they are better able to repair or replace damaged tissue.
How To Slow Down The Aging Process | Goop
At a young age, David Sinclair learned that everybody and everything will one day die. This sober fact kick-started a fascination with biology—and now, as a professor of genetics at Harvard, Sinclair is advancing our understanding of how we age and how to slow—or even reverse—aging.
goop.com
There are two main types of information in our body’s cells: The first is genetic information, and the second is epigenetic information. Epigenetics are chemical changes that occur on our genome that dictate when genes are turned on and off. We know that the environment—how we’ve lived our lives, if we’ve been fasting or exercising, and so on—slows down or accelerates the ticking of that epigenetic clock.
TLDR: In the future, we might be able to not only stop aging but reverse it as well.
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