Treatment with low-frequency ultrasound has restarted cell division in ageing human cells and improved bodily efficiency in outdated mice
Health
16 January 2023
A human cell (centre) throughout mitosis, the method of replication and division that creates new cells TORSTEN WITTMANN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Low-frequency ultrasound seems to have rejuvenating results on animals. It has restarted cell division in ageing human cells, and reinvigorated outdated mice, enhancing their bodily efficiency in checks resembling working on a treadmill and making one outdated, hunchbacked mouse transfer round usually once more.
“‘Is this too good to be true?’ is the question I often ask,” says Michael Sheetz on the University of Texas Medical Branch, whose staff is planning to begin a …