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Young blood rejuvenates brains and muscles of old mice
If three discoveries in mice reported on Sunday are applicable to people, making old brains and old muscles perform like young ones may require simply a blood transfusion. In two of the studies, giving the blood of young mice to old ones undid age-related impairments in the brain, reversing declines in learning and memory and boosting the creation of new neurons and the ability of the brain to change its structure in response to experience.
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You wait this long to try this???
'tis was quackery back then.
There are so many potential ethical problems with this. On the other side I can see this being used to treat many serious medical conditions.
And so it begins...
The Simpsons already did this... 20 years ago.
What episode, what happened?
Mr Burns needed a blood transfusion and only Bart was a matching donor. Not sure what ep.
That was the last episode of the 2nd season.
The first I heard of this was on radiolab on their blood episode.