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  Battle Aging Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is progress in medicine: building new classes of therapy to repair and reverse the known root causes of aging . The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved. Find out how to help ». As noted in today's open access paper, one can't just apply Yamanaka factors globally to obtain a good outcome. Some tissues react poorly. Thus researchers have focused initially on a few use cases in which it seems likely that there is a path to therapies at the end of the day, many of which are focused on neural tissue. That said, the work here involves direct injection of gene therapy vectors to specific areas of the brain, and thus is at the very least a lengthy delivery technology research and development program away from adoption. The primary challenge in the development of gene t...

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