Young Blood Helps Old Bodies Regenerate

Source: The Coven Organization

Call it the Vampire Effect. Scientists announced last week that they have found a mysterious factor in blood that can give elderly bodies the power to regenerate as if they were young again. One pervasive effect of aging is that the body slowly loses some of its ability to heal, a problem that aggravates many medical conditions. But, in a remarkable set of experiments that evoke the myth of the vampire, a team of California scientists showed that running the blood of young mice through the bodies of older mice restored a large degree of their self-healing ability. The work, published in today’s issue of the journal Nature, only looked at the muscle and liver, and the substance in the blood responsible has not been identified. If the mysterious substance can be found, said Thomas A. Rando of Stanford University, it might yield better ways to help the body heal itself.