Youth-giving benefits (Image: Elena Kulikova/Getty)
AN UNUSUAL experiment in which the blood supplies of old and young mice were bound together as if they were conjoined twins has boosted hopes of one day giving new life to old bodies.
A team led by of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, discovered that the blood of the young animals seemed to rejuvenate ageing blood stem cells in the bone marrows of the older mice. It also revitalised so-called “niche” cells in the bone marrow, which nourish, support and stimulate blood stem cells.
Although old mice make more…
