High tech keeps skin thirty years younger
Deaging cells has become increasingly common over the past decade as researchers have reprogrammed a variety of mouse and human cell types. However, after so many years of de-aging, cells still retain their specific types and functions. The method, developed by postdoctoral candidate Diljeet Gill and colleagues at Cambridge's Babram Institute and published April 8 in the journal eLife, is called "maturation transient reprogramming." The researchers applied the technique to fibroblasts, a common skin cell, from three middle-aged donors (average age about 50 years old) and then compared them with younger cells from donors aged 20 to 22 years. The researchers found that middle-aged cells are chemically and genetically similar to young cells. When exploring further, the team even noticed that the technique affected genes associated with age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and cataracts. In addition, Gill and his colleagues looked at the behavior of fiber cells, , to determine whether they could also function like young skin cells. When they damaged a layer of cells, they found that regenerating cells moved quickly to fill the gap, the same way young cells behave when healing a wound.
This result must have brought great news to the majority of female friends. I wonder if domestic beauty institutions can introduce it as soon as possible?
