Researcher Irina Conboy found that joining the circulatory systems of old and young mice improved the older animals' ability to heal from injury.
Sources
- MIT Technology Review (wp.technologyreview.com)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03260 (nature.com)
- https://rupress.org/jcb/article/187/1/4/35501/Irina-Conboy-Making-the-old-feel-young-again (rupress.org)
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