Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood Into an Elixir of Youth
Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood Into an Elixir of Youth
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 7, 20189m 51s
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Show Notes
In the early 2000s, a handful of young scientists at Stanford turned the university’s Palo Alto campus into the mouse-stitching-together capital of the world. Reviving a centuries-old procedure known as parabiosis, they connected the circulatory systems of dozens of pairs of rodents, young sutured to old, so that they’d pump one another’s blood back and forth.
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