The thought is to deal with the illness by regenerating wholesome nerves within the eye—however the firm already hopes to go additional. If the therapy can reverse glaucoma, related therapies might reverse different ailments of getting old. Possibly, simply perhaps, they may reverse getting old altogether.
The method depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s one among many methods being explored by biotech corporations trying to gradual and reverse getting old. However of all of them, it appears to be the one that’s really taking off.
Learn the total story on the pursuit of reprogramming for rejuvenation.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you are feeling inside
Scientists have a phrase for the way we sense ourselves from the within: interoception. Right this moment, due to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new instruments that may map inner signaling throughout the physique, analysis into interoception is taking off.
As researchers decode how alerts transfer between physique and mind, a clearer image is beginning to take form—with implications for the way we perceive and deal with situations from weight problems to continual ache to anxiousness.
Learn how it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”
