A recent study conducted states that medical researchers are trying to decode the aging process. Scientists are said to be starting to decode the most complicated biology of the aging process and they are really positive that the recent advances in research may lead to treatments that can slow or even reverse degeneration and disease.

According to Norman Sharpless, the professor of medicine and genetics at the University of California, she said, “We are seeing a major change, very important developments and real therapeutic efforts to try to treat age-related illnesses.”

Can this reassure us young people that we can lengthen our life span based on this study? “It is a very exciting time in aging research,” Sharpless added, citing some most recent studies in France and United States. Sharpless is also associated in Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The said research study which was published in October and was led by Jean-Marc Lemaitre and conducted at the Functional Genomics Institute, it shows that the cells from the elderly people who acted as donors can be rejuvenated as stem cells, erasing the ravages of age and proving that the aging process is reversible.

“It’s a major advance,” Sharpless added, noting some specific points that if many age-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease or Alzheimer’s are to be defeated, regenerative medicine will be required also. He also stressed that problem that “Cellular therapy is very difficult to develop”. And expectations must be kept in check.

Sharpless also warned the people that, “the way trials work, it is going to be a couple of years before that research is translated into human aging research because of the risk if cancer frankly.”

The worry is while those cells are great, there are some risks for recipients.”