New blood 'recharges old brain', mouse study suggests

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New blood 'recharges old brain', mouse study suggests

Post by cronus » Mon May 05, 2014 4:41 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27282832

New blood 'recharges old brain', mouse study suggests

Researchers in the US say they might have discovered how to combat and even reverse some processes of ageing, at least in mice.

Injecting the blood of young mice into older rodents boosted their brainpower, a study found.

Scientists at Stanford University plan to carry out trials in people in the hope that new treatments for dementia can be developed.

A UK dementia research charity said the human significance was unknown.

In the study, published in Nature Medicine, mice aged 18 months were given injections of the fluid part of blood (plasma) taken from mice aged three months.

The injected mice performed better on memory tests than mice of the same age that had not been given blood plasma.

"There are factors present in blood from young mice that can recharge an old mouse's brain so that it functions more like a younger one," said Dr Tony Wyss-Coray of Stanford University School of Medicine.

"We're working intensively to find out what those factors might be and from exactly which tissues they originate."

He said it was not known whether the same was true in humans, but a clinical trial was planned.

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Post by PsychoSerenity » Mon May 05, 2014 4:49 pm

Bodes for a vampiric future. :nervous:
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Post by cronus » Mon May 05, 2014 4:53 pm

It's been the stuff of media fantasy for years. Either zombies or vampires were bound to happen one day. I guess we got the vampires first and if youth don't revolt over this then zombies will be coming too, soon enough.
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Post by JimC » Mon May 05, 2014 10:04 pm

I'm worried that a transfusion from one of these "young people" will leave me with a questionable taste in music...
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Post by Hermit » Tue May 06, 2014 1:09 am

...and I wish those white-coated researchers would leave Mousy alone. She's not a labrat.
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Re: New blood 'recharges old brain', mouse study suggests

Post by Seth » Tue May 06, 2014 1:23 am

I envision a future filled with buxom but vapid young women being impregnated by wrinkled old men turning out legions of babies who are gene-modified for docility and servility who line up like the Eloi at the phlebotomy shop every week so their blood can be given to wrinkled old men and women to keep them alive.

Can you say "baaaaaa?"

Oh, wait, that's the UK right now...sans the phlebotomy.
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