"In 2006 Yamanaka Shinya and Takahashi Kazutoshi of Kyoto University showed how cells which expressed the genes appropriate to being part of a mouse’s skin could be stripped of their dermatological determination and reprogrammed to become something very like the stem cells which are found in embryos."

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What you may not know about this is that those same Yamanaka factors are being used to restore youth to elderly mice/yeast/worms/dogs, and every other model organism they’ve tried it on. Check out Dr David Sinclairs work on rejuvenating mouse eyes after crushing their optic nerve.