Old blood made young again

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3118, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Blood from the young seems to have healing powers. When Hartmut Geiger of the University of Ulm and his team examined the bone marrow in mice, they found that older animals have much lower levels of a protein called osteopontin. To see if this protein has an effect on blood stem cells, the team injected stem cells into mice that lacked osteopontin and found that the cells rapidly aged. But when older stem cells were mixed in a dish with osteopontin and a protein that activates it, they began to produce white blood cells just as young stem cells do. This suggests osteopontin makes stem cells behave more youthfully.