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#189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

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Is There a Reset Switch?

There are three embryonic genes that we could put into the adult animal to reset the age of the tissues. And it only takes four to eight weeks to work well. We can take a blind mouse that's lost its vision due to aging. Reset those neurons back to a younger age, and now the mice can see again. These three genes are famous actually because they're a set of four genes discovered by Shinnia Yamanaka.

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