The thought is to deal with the illness by regenerating wholesome nerves within the eye—however the firm already hopes to go additional. If the remedy can reverse glaucoma, related therapies may reverse different ailments of growing old. Perhaps, simply perhaps, they may reverse growing old altogether.
The method depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s one in all many methods being explored by biotech firms trying to gradual and reverse growing old. However of all of them, it appears to be the one that’s really taking off.
Learn the total story on the pursuit of reprogramming for rejuvenation.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you are feeling inside
Scientists have a phrase for the way we sense ourselves from the within: interoception. As we speak, because of a 2021 Nobel Prize and new instruments that may map inside signaling throughout the physique, analysis into interoception is taking off.
As researchers decode how indicators transfer between physique and mind, a clearer image is beginning to take form—with implications for the way we perceive and deal with situations from weight problems to power ache to anxiousness.
Learn the way it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”
