The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
While limited to mouse models, these findings add to a growing body of evidence that rejuvenation by epigenetic reprogramming may safely reverse aging-related decline in multiple tissues, or whole body one day
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If that hypothesis continues to hold up, studies like this may represent an early stage in a new era of medicine: treating age-related diseases by restoring youth, rather than replacing tissues after they fail
A new branch of medicine has emerged: age reversal by partial reprogramming.
This approach has implications far beyond NAION and even the vision field, and we are pleased to share data that support the continued development of our scientific platform to address diseases of aging and restore human health
I’m the broader context, partial reprogramming is emerging as a powerful tool to reset aged cells without turning them into stem cells. We have seen it rejuvenate tissues from livers to retinas to skin. Applying it to specific neurons shows that targeted rejuvenation in the brain is feasible and that dementia maybe I thing of the past if we can address the underlying course which is aging 🧠
So we're super optimistic that this may be a universal mechanism of age resetting in the body that can not just be applied to different mouse tissues, but also in humans as well.
that's why I'm a lot more optimistic than I was having seen what reprogramming has in terms of potential to be able to not just slow the clock down which is inexorable seemingly inexorable but now actually get cells to go back in time
the evidence is suggestive that if you do it just right you can improve function in at least some aged tissues and or organs by partial reprogramming
So, the thing in the aging field, again, is this kind of transient or partial reprogramming thing. And just, again, not necessarily for an intervention but just figuring out what it is. To me, it's just so magical that you can change the state of a cell. And what does that mean for the cell, and does it now function better, and do populations of cells work better together, and how does that happen?