by Josh Conway – Lifespan.io –
Researchers are keeping a bank of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from centenarians and their descendants. They describe the purpose of this bank and its uses in Aging Cell.
These researchers built their bank using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and the iPSCs derived from them. A total of 45 centenarians were recruited for this study, with 45 descendants included as well. Over three-fourths of the centenarians had healthy brains at age 100, and more than four-fifths were able to live independently at that age.
