The key to making aging cells young again is cell cycle speed

February 3, 2014

(Medical News Today) – In the journal Cell, Yale School of Medicine researchers identified a major obstacle to converting cells back to their youthful state – the speed of the cell cycle, or the time required for a cell to divide. When the cell cycle accelerates to a certain speed, the barriers that keep a cell’s fate on one path diminish. In such a state, cells are easily persuaded to change their identity and become pluripotent, or capable of becoming multiple cell types.