She's scouring
the plasma of healthy people, looking for chemicals abundant in the elderly and spare in the young, in an effort to fight cancer.
Gomes, a postdoc at Weill Cornell Medicine, is scouring the blood
plasma of healthy people young and old, looking for chemicals abundant in the elderly and spare in the young.
Not exact matches
A trial is under way at a hospital in South Korea to test whether injections
of human umbilical cord
plasma have anti-ageing effects in
healthy people aged 55 or older.
On the basis
of those results, at least one company is attempting to replicate the effect in humans using blood
plasma from
healthy young
people to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease.