In the laboratory of David Sinclair, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School, old mice become young again. It is believed that humans can reverse aging in the future By transforming adult cells into stem cell proteins, Sinclair's team successfully reset the aging cells in mice to the early version.
In the first breakthrough published by his team at the end of 2020, old mice with poor eyesight and damaged retinas can suddenly see again, and their eyesight can sometimes be comparable to that of their offspring.
Sinclair has been working on projects to reverse aging for the past 20 years. "As far as we know, this is a permanent reset, and we think it may be a universal process that can be applied to the whole body to reset our age," he said.
In life itself, a health and health care activity co organized by CNN, Sinclair said: "if we reverse aging, these diseases should not occur. The technology we have today can enable hundreds of people not to worry about cancer in their 70s, heart disease in their 80s and Alzheimer's disease in their 90s.".
He said excitedly to the audience: "this is the coming world. For most people, it is only a matter of time. We do not know whether this breakthrough can be realized in our lifetime.".
Whitney Casey, an investor who cooperates with Sinclair to create a do it yourself biological age, said: "his research shows that you can change aging and make life younger. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease.".
Although modern medicine has solved the disease, it has not solved the root cause. Sinclair said, "for most diseases, it is caused by aging itself. We know that when we reverse the age of organs such as the mouse brain, the aging disease will disappear. Memories come back; there will be no dementia. I believe that in the future, delaying and reversing aging will be the best way to treat the diseases that afflict most of us.".