Cell biologists are within striking distance of “partial reprogramming”. Already, technology has arrived to turn an old cell into a young cell in a Petri dish, and researchers (Turn.bio) are looking intensely for ways to safely rejuvenate cells within a living body. Is this the breakthrough that we in the human rejuvenation movement have been waiting for, or is it a sideshow?
Partial Reprogramming
In nature, aging is part of a one-way street. A germ cell becomes a stem cell becomes a differentiated cell, and then the differentiated cell grows old.
In the course of nature, cells change their epigenetic state from left
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