The 'fountain of youth' is not locked away in a sorcerer's stone or mythical water source, according to new research. In fact, scientists in the US say the key to slowing ageing is hiding in our bodies.
Published in Nature Aging, the new research reveals that the trick to antiageing lies within the white blood cells, known as T cells. The scientists behind the research discovered that they can reprogramme these cells to turn them into ageing-cell killing machines, called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة February 2024 من BBC Science Focus.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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