In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka made a groundbreaking discovery that would win him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine just ...

Scientists explore partial cellular reprogramming using antibiotics to reverse aging and repair cells and tissues safely.

Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials.

Photo / 123rf Can reprogramming our genes make us young again? A breakthrough in longevity research may be nearing its first human trials. For those hoping to cure death, and they are legion, a 2016 ...

“The real stroke of brilliance is the notion that you make the cell younger, and then it would be more resilient to injury,” ...

Forget ageing gracefully-tech titans and business magnates are now pouring millions into cutting-edge treatments.

He used a technique for which the Japanese stem-cell scientist Shinya Yamanaka had won a Nobel Prize. Yamanaka discovered a set of four genes that could, when delivered by an inactivated virus ...

Osaka-born scientist Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2012 for his discovery of such cells, which researchers hope can lead to a breakthrough in medicine by repairing damaged tissues ...