Young Again: A Breakthrough New Mechanism for Rejuvenating Human Cells

“The body [can] remember how to regenerate and be young again, even if you’re already old and have an illness.”

Both of these mice are 16 months old, but the mouse on the right experienced a series of DNA breaks. Image by D. SINCLAIR/HMS.

From the depths of human innovation have surfaced a variety of new methods that bring us one step closer to that long sought-after fountain of youth. Incredible milestones are being achieved in the field of age reversal and life-extension technology so that even now there may be the lucky first that will live to 150 years or more — an unfathomable number to our primitive predecessors whose idea of a long life was 30 or 40 years old. A century from now perhaps even 150 years will seem too little, and a man that dies at 109 years of age will be said to have died “young, and still in the prime of his life”.

So what are these important milestones and who are the people responsible for them?

Dr. David Sinclair, a professor of genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard, released a study earlier this year detailing a newly-discovered biological clock than can both accelerate and reverse the aging process. The study itself has been the product of 13 years of research, and has disrupted our scientific understanding of aging.