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Seven Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World Forever

29-Sep-2015

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Researchers gave the mice a compound called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide or NAD for a week and found that the age indicators in two-year-old mice were restored to that of six-month-old mice. That would be like turning a 60-year-old human into a 20-year-old!

The studies were published in the Scientific Reports and Cell Reports journals.

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Cell Reports

Journal publishing research papers across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences

Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST)

Centre for smart microsystems integration, focusing on design as well as technology research.

Jun-Ichi Hayashi

Professor at the University of Tsukuba.

Scientific Reports

Scientific Journal providing information from all areas of the natural sciences

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