A Promising Gene Therapy Will Be Tried in Living Humans Next Year
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 6 million adults in the U.S. live with heart failure. Of those, at least half are expected to die within five years of their diagnosis. Needless to say, any advances made in terms of treatment for the condition would be invaluable — if not life-saving.
So far this year, the UK has implemented a new program that uses donor hearts to aid those suffering from heart failure. In October, the exciting news came that scientists had managed to successfully reverse advanced heart failure in mice. Those findings were particularly important to the future of treatments, as the hearts of mice and humans are actually incredibly similar…”
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https://futurism.com/promising-gene-therapy-tried-living-humans-next-year/amp/
What would happen if they injected hormones from a young person into a older person? Would the older person live longer?