In today's world where ageless beauty seems to be playing a significant role, finding a drug that can slow down aging is indeed a good news. Harvard and University of New South Wales scientists said they have discovered how to reverse the aging process through their studies on mice.
Ageless beauty or to be forever young is a seemingly impossible ideal that has been sought through the ages. But with scientists from esteemed US universities discovered reversing the ageing process through their studies on mice may give us all the chance for eternal youth.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales have now identified the communication collapse as the cause of aging. In The Huffington Post report, certain events help facilitate communication between the cell nucleus and the mitochondria, which is the cell's energy source on a molecular level.
"The aging process we discovered is like a married couple-- when they are young, they communicate well, but over time, living in close quarters for many years, communication breaks down," Harvard University-based lead researcher David Sinclair said in a release.
In the US, researchers are closing in on a therapy that could reverse damaging ageing processes in the brain, muscles, heart and other organs. Hopes have been upturned by three separate reports released by major journals on Sunday that demonstrate in experiments on mice the intense rejuvenating effects of chemicals found naturally in young blood.
Scientists discovered that infusions of young blood reversed age-related deteriorations in memory and learning, brain function, muscle strength and stamina. In two of the reports, The Guardian said scientists identified a single chemical in blood that appears to reverse some of the damage caused by ageing. Although all three studies were done in mice, researchers believed a comparable revitalizing therapy should work in humans. A clinical trial is expected to begin in the next three to five years.
Ageing is considered as one of the utmost risk factors for a bunch of major and serious conditions, from cancer and heart disease to diabetes and dementia. As the population grows older, the percentage of people suffering from such conditions increases. A therapy that slows or reverses age-related damage in the body is promising to have the potential to avoid a public health crisis by delaying the onset of several diseases at once.
Finding the fountain of youth is an indefinable course. Sinclair said the researchers have moved from mice into "early human clinical studies" and they expect to know if reversing the aging process in people will be possible in the next few years.
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