Vampires were right: fountain of youth may be in young blood

Apparently vampires did hold the key to immortality. Recent studies show that receiving (infused) blood infusion helps elderly patients to reverse some characteristics of old age. From this discovery, the Stanford Medical School hospital decided to perform “young blood” transfusions for Alzheimer's victims.

The first human trials will be conducted in October. Although this is the basic premise of all vampire stories, it was very easy to get approval for this project - after all, we've been blood transfusing each other for decades, but we never stop to look closely at the side effects that could be. cause in organisms.

If the results in people are as positive as those seen in mice, brain functions could increase immediately. Other advantages found in the process were an increase in recovery rates, healing and renewal of muscle tissue, as well as a slowing down of aging effects on organs. The opposite happened when young rats received blood from older animals.

"In the end, blood must really contain the source of youth, " says researcher Wyss-Coray to New Scientist magazine. “And the answer was within us; This is the weirdest thing. Our blood simply loses power as we get older. ”

Although blood transfusions are common today, the most important thing to do is to identify what characteristics in plasma bring us all these benefits. Scientists have an idea: a protein called “differential growth factor 11” that decreases as we get older. Rats given injections of this protein developed more vascularized and healthier brains.

Now we can only wait for what the results of these experiments on humans will look like and find out if Bram Stocker, John Willian Polidori, and other great names in nineteenth-century horror literature were right about vampirism.

Via InAbstract