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 remedy can reverse glaucoma, comparable remedies may reverse different ailments of growing old. Possibly, simply possibly, they may reverse growing old altogether.
The method depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s one in every of many methods being explored by biotech firms seeking to gradual and reverse growing old. 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 a way we sense ourselves from the within: interoception. Right this moment, because of 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 alerts transfer between physique and mind, a clearer image is beginning to take form—with implications for a way we perceive and deal with circumstances from weight problems to continual ache to nervousness.
Learn the way it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”
