Source: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Date: January 3, 2012
Summary:
PITTSBURGH – Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle of young, healthy animals. Instead of becoming infirm and dying early as untreated mice did, animals that got the stem/progenitor cells improved their health and lived two to three times longer than expected, according to findings published in the Jan. 3 edition of Nature Communications.
ABC News, MSNBC, The Daily Mail and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review carried news stories today on this development.
