Can Filtering our Aged Blood Keep Us Young?
Interview with Drs. Irina Conboy and Michael Conboy discuss the topic of blood filtering and young blood for rejuvenation.
We contacted Dr. Irina conboy at Berkeley University due to a recent study that looked at the effects of plasma from young mice on older mice. Dr. Conboy, an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, is an expert on stem cell niche engineering and tissue repair. She also has a special interest in stem cell rejuvenation and stem cell aging. Let’s get to know Dr. Conboy a bit before we move on to the main topic.
Conboy received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in autoimmunity. She met her life partner and partner in science, Dr. Michael Conboy met her at Harvard. They married before beginning graduate studies. She began her postdoctoral research focusing on the muscle stem cells. She was trying to determine what directed them to produce new healthy tissues and what caused them to lose their regeneration ability as we age[1].
She and her husband Michael discovered that stem cells can be stimulated to act like younger ones. The Conboys parabiosis experiment, which involved connecting the circulatory systems between aged and young mouses, showed that old age was not fixed and could be reversed within a few weeks[2].
Source:
https://www.leafscience.org/conboy-interview/
