by Jenny Loftrup, Lund University – MedicalXpress –
By freezing your own healthy blood stem cells in your 20s, thawing them and undergoing a stem cell transplant in your 40s or 50s, it might be possible to rejuvenate your blood-forming and immune systems. Science fiction? At least it works when old mice receive healthy blood stem cells from young mice.
Mice live only a couple of years at most. That makes them suitable for use in aging research: Their aging process happens at a furious pace compared with that of humans.
