By Sean Duke – Newsweek –
Stem cells have been taken from the blood of ‘superagers’ – people aged 100 or more – and reprogrammed so that they are again capable of becoming any cell type in the body in research that could open the door to a better understanding of how cells age, and how some of us become more resistant to diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s.
“Ageing is unavoidable as are the laws of physics,” Thomas Perls, Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine who conducted the breakthrough stem cell research with Dr George Murphy, a stem cell biologist based at the same School, told Newsweek.
