Find out how you can fight the aging process

A team of experts from 4 universities around the world has found a way to fight the aging process by killing old cells in the laboratory.

This technology is coordinated by a team of experts from the University of Leicester (UK), Oberta de Catalunya University (Spain), Cross River University of Technology (Nigeria), Umm Al-Qura University (Saudi Arabia). a pharmaceutical company in the United States developed. The team found a way to help eliminate aging cells by treating them with antibodies . The work was published in the journal Scientific Reports on October 13.

Cell senescence is an irreversible phenomenon that occurs when the natural process of cell division is no longer present in human tissue. It also causes many other related diseases such as Alzheimer's, type II diabetes and cancer.

Scientists already know that in a laboratory environment, removing old cells from tissue helps to slow down the aging process due to age, thereby prolonging life. However, that is still just a theory. From theory to practice is a challenge that people have been searching for for hundreds of years.

Fighting the aging process, helping people stay young, prolonging life is the goal of many people for hundreds of years. (Photo: Freepik).

A team of experts from four universities and pharmaceutical companies in the US has discovered a new method to eliminate the accumulation of aging cells . They use the antibody as a 'smart bomb' , designed to recognize and destroy oxidized cells.

This technology, which is a drug-antibody compound, has been shown by the authors to be effective in eliminating aging cells in a special way.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Salvador Macip, Director of the Cancer and Aging Mechanisms Laboratory at the University of Leicester, co-author, said: ' Senolytics are new drugs with great potential to improve aging. The ones we've found before are often non-specific and have many pretty strong side effects. That's why we're so interested in a second generation drug - a serum-degrading drug - that targets and eliminates aging cells without affecting surrounding healthy cells."

Inspired by copying cancer therapy, the team edited an antibody so it could recognize aging cells. Then, they put special toxins into aging cells and destroy them from the inside.

However, this research has only been successful at the laboratory level. The group of experts also shared that they are very hopeful about this result and will start clinical trials on humans in the near future.

This is not the first time that researchers have tried to find a way to "rejuvenate" humanity. In October 2020, a start-up resonated after receiving an investment of $ 270 million from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. This company specializes in research methods to reverse aging, promising to help people look younger than their age.

The pharmaceutical company's technology is based on protein processing so that the cells in the body return to a state like stem cells, thereby preventing and reversing the aging process, helping people maintain youthfulness. and longevity. Further, some scientists even hope the technology can be extended to revive whole animals and ultimately help prolong human life.

Another business, founded in 2013 by Google co-founder Larry Page, has the same goal of finding ways to prolong human life. This company also recruits many famous scientists with good salaries. However, not much is known about the progress of this company's research.