The concept 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 may reverse different ailments of getting older. Perhaps, simply perhaps, they may reverse getting older altogether.
The strategy depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s one in every of many methods being explored by biotech firms seeking to sluggish and reverse getting older. However of all of them, it appears to be the one that’s really 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. In the present day, because of a 2021 Nobel Prize and new instruments that may map inside 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 persistent ache to nervousness.
Learn the way it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”
