The Obtain: “reprogramming” growing old, and the hidden sense of interoception

The concept is to deal with the illness by regenerating wholesome nerves within the eye—however the firm already hopes to go additional. If the remedy can reverse glaucoma, comparable remedies might reverse different ailments of growing old. Possibly, simply perhaps, they may reverse growing old altogether.

The strategy depends on “reprogramming” cells to a youthful state. It’s considered one of many methods being explored by biotech corporations seeking to sluggish and reverse growing old. However of all of them, it appears to be the one that’s really taking off.

Learn the total story on the pursuit of reprogramming for rejuvenation.

—Jessica Hamzelou

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Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you are feeling inside

Scientists have a phrase for a way we sense ourselves from the within: interoception. At the moment, due to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new instruments that may map inside signaling throughout the physique, analysis into interoception is taking off.

As researchers decode how alerts transfer between physique and mind, a clearer image is beginning to take form—with implications for a way we perceive and deal with circumstances from weight problems to power ache to nervousness.

Learn the way it’s resulting in a “new continent of consciousness.”