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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.htmlTwo teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains. As ghoulish as the research may sound, experts said that it could lead to treatments for disorders like Alzheimers disease and heart disease.
I am extremely excited, said Rudolph Tanzi, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research. These findings could be a game changer.
The research builds on centuries of speculation that the blood of young people contains substances that might rejuvenate older adults.
In the 1950s, Clive M. McCay of Cornell University and his colleagues tested the notion by delivering the blood of young rats into old ones. To do so, they joined rats in pairs by stitching together the skin on their flanks. After this procedure, called parabiosis, blood vessels grew and joined the rats circulatory systems. The blood from the young rat flowed into the old one, and vice versa.
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This is a good read.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Elizabeth Bathory strikes back!
thereismore
(13,326 posts)we'll just have to mainline it.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)But...I'm not into that whole vampire look.
...think I can get it in a powder? Maybe a smoothie?
Submariner
(12,506 posts)A smoothie?
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Hey, if I can blend a tomato in a smoothie and not taste it because of all the other fruit, there should be a way to get my daily supply of Blood Of Young Person (tm) in there too!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)The rich will be operating baby farms so they can live forever. There's a sci-fi novel there, for sure.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,426 posts)****Spoilers for anybody whom hasn't seen this awesome show from the 90's****
Deals with an immortality serum that we find out later can only be created from living beings.
LiberalArkie
(15,727 posts)Gman
(24,780 posts)Why anyone would want to live extraordinarily long.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)It isn't as if life in this country is going to get any better any time soon.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)bobduca
(1,763 posts)and you have yourself a deal, mister!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)RainDog
(28,784 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Russian scientist Alexandr Bogdanov believed that blood transfusion from young people will help him to stay young.
One of the transfusions killed him.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)With a little blood, we could all be as cool as Adam and Eve, and still be alive after 3000 years:
With their finely chiseled clavicles and cheekbones, their nocturnal habits and exquisite taste, Adam and Eve are about the coolest couple you could imagine. (They are played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton, which definitely helps.) Adam lives in a vast apartment in the picturesque ruins of Detroit, surrounded by vinyl records and vintage guitars acquired by an eager young gofer named Ian (Anton Yelchin). Eve haunts the alleys of Tangier, speed-reading old books in every known language and lingering in an all-night cafe with Christopher Marlowe, who still regrets, five centuries after the fact, not receiving proper credit for Shakespeares plays.
It is part of the conceit of Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmuschs latest slow-burn celebration of art, style and aimless conversation, that old Kit Marlowe (a marvelously grizzled John Hurt), one of the original literary outlaws, is alive and well, if a bit weary. Dwelling in a city associated with latter-day writer-renegades like William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles, Marlowe is Eves confidant and mentor. He also supplies her with human blood, since both of them (and Adam too) are vampires.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/movies/only-lovers-left-alive-jarmuschs-vampire-malaise.html