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Youthful bone marrow transplants increases lifespan in mice

27-Oct-2015

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Mice received bone marrow transplants from young donors every 3 months from age 6 months.

Saw increase in mean lifespan of 34%.

If the same worked in humans (with equivalent transplants every 9 years from age 18) that would length life expectancy by of 27 humans years.

Could use cryopreservation own stem cells, taken in a young age, later autologous transplantation.

The study was published in the Journal of Biophysics.

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Journal of Biophysics

Journal covering research in the fields related to Biomedical Engineering.

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