A cure for old-age? 👉 Scientists will trial a new longevity drug in the UK next year that could increase life expectancy to 120
Scientists will trial a new longevity drug in the UK next year that they say could increase the life expectancy of some people to up to 120 years of age.
Using this new understanding, lead researcher Professor Alessio Lanna of University College London has created a treatment that significantly slowed down the speed at which the protective cap is worn away in the T cells of living mice and human cells in the lab. Dr Marina Ezcurra, senior lecturer in the biology of ageing, at Kent University, who was not involved in the research, added: “This is a really interesting study. Once you have identified a biological process you can always try to find a drug.”
“Telomere biology has been studied for more than 40 years. For decades, a single enzyme, telomerase, has been credited as the sole mechanism responsible for telomere elongation and maintenance in cells. Our results illuminate how a different mechanism that does not require telomerase can be used to extend telomeres,” he says.
The experiments saw the length of the telomeres extended by 30 times as much as happens during the immune cells routine maintenance, or telomerase.
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