Chinese Researchers Develop Gene Therapy That Can Delay Ageing
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing have developed a new gene therapy that delays aging in mice and extends their lifespans by a quarter. Further reports suggest that it could also be used for humans in the near future.
The detailed report that was published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal a few weeks ago highlights a method for the deactivation of the kat7 gene which is responsible for cellular aging in living organisms.
The team of biologists that was co-supervised by Professor Qu Jing used the CRISPR-Cas9 method to study thousands of genetic threads and identified the kat7 gene as the most efficient contributor to cellular aging.
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Chinese scientists develop gene therapy that could delay ageing and extend lifespan
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Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Dr. Shuhui Sun performs a step of histological staining of mouse liver for pathological analysis in the Aging and Regeneration lab at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, China, January 12, 2021. Picture was taken January 12, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that showed some reversal effects of ageing in mice.
They presume that the findings may one day contribute to similar treatment for humans.
The method involves inactivating a gene called kat7 which the scientists found to be a key contributor to cellular ageing.
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