A shot of young stem cells made rapidly aging mice live much longer and healthier
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle of young, healthy animals. Instead of becoming infirm and dying early as untreated mice did, animals that got the stem/progenitor cells improved their health and lived two to three times longer than expected.