New research has found that blood from young mice can improve the health of older ones. So is the centuries' old idea that youth can be sacrificed to prevent ageing more than a pipe dream? Jess Zimmerman sorts the science from the scary stories
Saul Villeda, who leads a stem-cell research lab at the University of California, San Francisco, is not concerned about a black market for baby blood. "You sound like my mother," he told an anxious reporter for the radio station WNYC's science programme Radiolab in an interview last year. "She's worried that all of a sudden 16-year-olds are going to go missing."
Villeda's mother has reason to worry, sort of. Her son's research has found that blood from young mice can improve the learning and memory of old ones, and she's certainly not the only one to wonder what this could mean for humans .... http://www.independent.co.uk
