Tag: Partial Cellular Reprogramming

A new study has found that partial reprogramming mitigates the damage of myocardial infarction in mice by helping heart muscle cells to complete division [1]. When heart cells get stuck When a heart attack (myocardial infarction, MI) kills a patch of heart muscle, the adult mammalian heart cannot replace it, since the lost contractile muscle...

The FDA views aging as an inevitability, not a medical target. However, with Life Biosciences moving the first cellular reprogramming therapy into human trials this year, things might be changing there. If this technique works in resetting the biological age of the human eye, the entire multibillion-dollar longevity industry could move to the center of...

Cellular reprogramming is one of the technologies most associated with longevity. The field was created in 2006, when Shinya Yamanaka showed that a cocktail of four transcription factors, commonly known as OSKM, can cause de-differentiation and massive rejuvenation of a cell, creating an iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cell). About a decade later, partial reprogramming was...

Scientists have applied partial reprogramming to memory-encoding neurons (engrams) and achieved memory improvements in Alzheimer’s models and wild-type mice [1]. Rejuvenating neurons Partial cellular reprogramming, which uses certain factors to rejuvenate cells while maintaining their identity) has shown promise across various conditions and cell types, including neurons [2]. Rejuvenating these long-lived brain cells is imperative...

Life Biosciences has announced that its trial of cellular reprogramming aimed at two age-related vision diseases has received a go-ahead from the FDA. We spoke with the company’s CSO to get more details. Life Biosciences, the biotech company based on Harvard professor David Sinclair’s research into cellular reprogramming, stunned everyone last year by announcing that...

In Advanced Science, a team of researchers has explained how partial cellular reprogramming through the OSKM factors restores nerve repair ability to older animals. Stress as a signal This paper focuses on Schwann cells, glial cells that are often responsible for maintaining the protective sheaths of myelin around neuronal axons and help peripheral nerves to...