Can Stem Cells Reverse Aging? With Dr. David Agus
Dr. David Agus describes how we might soon use proteins to reactivate our own stem cells, effectively reversing the effects of old age. His latest book is "The ...
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I want to tell you one story. And the story came from the early 1950s. A woman named Wanda Ruth Lunsford, she was a scientist in New York City and she published one paper, which turned out to be her only paper in science and she was actually pushed out of science. What she did was she took an old rat and a young rat, she put them to sleep and she tied their skin together. So after about a day or so their blood supplies joined. Well, several weeks later she looked and in that old rat there were new neurons growing in the brain, the heart beat stronger and the muscles were bigger. The gray hair turned brown again. She claimed she reversed aging. People call her Dracula, Frankenstein, all kinds of crazy names. Well, earlier this year three separate laboratories at Harvard, Stanford, Univer...
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I want to tell you one story. And the story came from the early 1950s. A woman named Wanda Ruth Lunsford, she was a scientist in New York City and she published one paper, which turned out to be her only paper in science and she was actually pushed out of science. What she did was she took an old rat and a young rat, she put them to sleep and she tied their skin together. So after about a day or so their blood supplies joined. Well, several weeks later she looked and in that old rat there were new neurons growing in the brain, the heart beat stronger and the muscles were bigger. The gray hair turned brown again. She claimed she reversed aging. People call her Dracula, Frankenstein, all kinds of crazy names. Well, earlier this year three separate laboratories at Harvard, Stanford, Univer...
