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LiberalArkie

(15,727 posts)
Sun May 4, 2014, 07:32 PM May 2014

Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html

Two 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 Alzheimer’s 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.

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Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging (Original Post) LiberalArkie May 2014 OP
Fiction in the past becomes science in the future... Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2014 #1
Yo for science! She was allegedly bathing in it only. Vampires were drinking it, thereismore May 2014 #3
Dang! Ya BOTH beat me to it! Shandris May 2014 #4
Ewwwww..... Submariner May 2014 #19
OMG that expression is priceless! Shandris May 2014 #20
Suddenly young people look extremely tasty! VanillaRhapsody May 2014 #2
Oh swell! pscot May 2014 #5
Babylon 5 (TV series) by JMS already hinted at this in a S1 eps ("Deathwalker") Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #17
I wonder how much a pint will go for? LiberalArkie May 2014 #6
But the older I get the more I wonder Gman May 2014 #7
I was just thinking the same thing. Brigid May 2014 #13
Peak blood. JaneyVee May 2014 #8
So I should start a baby mouse blood donation center? penultimate May 2014 #9
free-range baby mice bobduca May 2014 #10
Act now and get special introductory rates on my new babysitting service! pinboy3niner May 2014 #11
Everything reminds me of music these days Fumesucker May 2014 #12
creepy RainDog May 2014 #14
gawd, don't let Cheney know!n/t librechik May 2014 #15
DUzy malaise May 2014 #16
Not exactly a new idea. LisaL May 2014 #18
Promo for the new Jim Jarmusch film? frazzled May 2014 #21
The vampires were on to something. n/t Crunchy Frog May 2014 #22

thereismore

(13,326 posts)
3. Yo for science! She was allegedly bathing in it only. Vampires were drinking it,
Sun May 4, 2014, 07:39 PM
May 2014

we'll just have to mainline it.

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
4. Dang! Ya BOTH beat me to it!
Sun May 4, 2014, 07:41 PM
May 2014

But...I'm not into that whole vampire look.

...think I can get it in a powder? Maybe a smoothie?

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
20. OMG that expression is priceless!
Sun May 4, 2014, 10:31 PM
May 2014

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!

pscot

(21,024 posts)
5. Oh swell!
Sun May 4, 2014, 07:42 PM
May 2014

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)
17. Babylon 5 (TV series) by JMS already hinted at this in a S1 eps ("Deathwalker")
Sun May 4, 2014, 09:02 PM
May 2014

****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.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
13. I was just thinking the same thing.
Sun May 4, 2014, 08:35 PM
May 2014

It isn't as if life in this country is going to get any better any time soon.

LisaL

(44,974 posts)
18. Not exactly a new idea.
Sun May 4, 2014, 09:35 PM
May 2014

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)
21. Promo for the new Jim Jarmusch film?
Sun May 4, 2014, 11:43 PM
May 2014

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 Shakespeare’s plays.

It is part of the conceit of “Only Lovers Left Alive,” Jim Jarmusch’s 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 Eve’s 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




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