Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people (www.newscientist.com)

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This is cool in the abstract, on our timeline though?...

“My other thought is how difficult it is to obtain stem cells from volunteers. There would need to be a lot of volunteers to treat everyone with frailty.”

Gonna be a LOT of "volunteers" for rich people I suspect.

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[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

can we revert cells from the same person to more useful stem cells and grow that biomass and then injury them with their own stem cells?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell?wprov=sfti1

Or would that have the same validity as stem cells from a younger person?

Why wouldn’t we just do that with some kind of prime candidate? Or selection of best pluripotent strains?

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