The fountain of a mouse’s youth is really creepy.

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Scientists have discovered that injecting young (18 year old teenager) human blood plasma into older mice (12 months old) helps to rejuvenate their bodies. The blood plasma made the old mice perform like young ones, running around in open spaces much like the younger mice. But that’s not it either; their power of memory and reasoning had improved. When put in a Barnes maze the rejuvenated mice navigated through the maze just as well as their younger counterparts with stronger memories. The rejuvenating property of young blood is due to the different protein makeups of young and old plasma. Young plasma contains a number of proteins that can rejuvenate tissues, with age these disappear and are replaced by harmful particles.

There are thousands of proteins that change with ageing plasma, causing those proteins to be inflammatory, which result in cell death. These proteins effect tissues in the body, including those in the brain. The older mice that received the young blood plasma had twice the quantities of freshly developed neurons. These trials may help science to development procedures that can decrease cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

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