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Chinese team may have discovered ‘vampire’ secret of rejuvenating blood

Asia One

MAY 31, 2022

PUBLISHED AT 9:45 PM

By ECHO XIE

A group of Chinese researchers has discovered a “vampire” technique, involving taking young blood and injecting it into older mice to make them live longer.

A new study, led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that exposure to old blood could accelerate the ageing of various organs and cell types in young mice, and that injecting young blood into old mice could “rejuvenate” their adult stem cells and surrounding somatic cells.

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