HEALTH
Skin made 30 years younger with a new technique
WORDS SIDDHI CAMILA LAMA
Fibroblasts labelled with fluorescent dyes
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Researchers have developed a way to reverse the ageing process in skin cells, turning back the biological clock by about 30 years. De-ageing cells has become increasingly common in the last decade, with researchers reprogramming multiple mouse, rat and human cell types. But never before have cells been de-aged by so many years and still retained their specific type and function. The method, developed by Diljeet Gill, a postdoctoral candidate at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, and his colleagues has been dubbed ‘maturation phase transient reprogramming’.