EPISODE · Sep 7, 2018 · 9 MIN
Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood Into an Elixir of Youth
from Science, Spoken · host WIRED
In the early 2000s, a handful of young scientists at Stanford turned the university’s Palo Alto campus into the mouse-stitching-together capital of the world. Reviving a centuries-old procedure known as parabiosis, they connected the circulatory systems of dozens of pairs of rodents, young sutured to old, so that they’d pump one another’s blood back and forth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In the early 2000s, a handful of young scientists at Stanford turned the university’s Palo Alto campus into the mouse-stitching-together capital of the world. Reviving a centuries-old procedure known as parabiosis, they connected the circulatory systems of dozens of pairs of rodents, young sutured to old, so that they’d pump one another’s blood back and forth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Startups Flock to Turn Young Blood Into an Elixir of Youth
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