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 therapy can reverse glaucoma, comparable remedies might reverse different ailments of ageing. Perhaps, simply possibly, they might reverse ageing altogether.
The method depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s one among many methods being explored by biotech corporations seeking to sluggish and reverse ageing. However of all of them, it appears to be the one that’s actually taking off.
Learn the complete story on the pursuit of reprogramming for rejuvenation.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you’re feeling inside
Scientists have a phrase for the way we sense ourselves from the within: interoception. Right now, due to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new instruments that may map inner 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 circumstances from weight problems to power ache to anxiousness.
Learn how it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”
