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Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

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Is Parabiosis a Good Thing?

The idea that there are either good factors in young blood or bad factors in all blood is exciting. It's at least something that we'll know the answer to, I think, in a couple of years. If you surgically attach a young mouse to an old mouse, that ends up being a good thing for the old mouse. There's some evidence too if you just dilute old blood that can be beneficial.

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