Daily Mail News UK – Health
By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:04 EDT, 16 August 2023 | UPDATED: 11:09 EDT, 16 August 2023
Researchers say they may have worked out how to reverse brain aging by decades in a ‘jaw-dropping’ scientific breakthrough.
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Queensland in Australia, found that when given PF4, a protein naturally found in the blood, older mice recovered the sharpness of middle age, and young mice got smarter.
Researchers examined the effects of PH4 on two-year-old mice, equivalent to a 70-year-old human, and said their cognitive function was restored to that of a 30 or 40-year-old.