The Secret of the Whales: A Mysterious Protein That Could Extend Human Life to 200 Years
The bowhead whale is the mammal with the longest lifespan on Earth - 200 years. Despite being enormous (50 tons, hundreds of billions of cells), it al...
Yamanaka factors
Yamanaka factors and reprogramming
Breakthrough: Method to Reverse Cellular Aging Set to Be Tested in Humans for the First Time
In 2012, Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize for discovering that 4 genes can revert an adult cell to a stem cell state. In 2026, the next step: turni...
Cellular Reprogramming, Simply Explained: How Nobel-Winning Genes Can Reverse Aging
How can an old cell be returned to its youth? The answer is four genes discovered by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006. They are known as "Yamanaka factors" and...
Yamanaka Factors in the Joint: A Local Injection to Reverse Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of chronic pain in the elderly. Current treatments focus on pain, not the cause. A new study in Nature presents an...
Cells repeat in time
Yamanka factors reprogram cells into fluorinpotent embryonic stem cells, they cause the cells to reset their cellular identity (thereby the cells forg...
"Partial Reprogramming" Offers Hope for Slowing Aging
Aging is a complex and multifaceted process, involving many changes at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ levels. As a result, aged cells lose...
Aging and Partial Reprogramming: Extending Lifespan and Improving Health
Aging is a complex physiological process that includes many changes at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels. This process is characterized...
Shinya Yamanaka, Cellular Reprogramming - Yamanaka Factors
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Pora Muñoz, biologist: "It is possible to reverse aging, and take the body back in time"
Altos Labs, a multinational company with a huge budget of 3 billion dollars, was founded about two years ago with an ambitious goal: to extend the hea...
Groundbreaking research presents a new option to reverse the aging process!
In a groundbreaking new study, the researchers examined the potential of "chemical reprogramming" – using chemical compounds to return aged cells to a...