Slowly walking upon the beach
bronze beauties lace the shore
and alas if only I were not so old
I'd keep on walking forever more
I fall in love over and over again
though I know it's most uncouth
leaving me with one thing to do
I must find that fountain of youth
In a series of studies over the last 15 years [this article was written in 2021], Villeda and others in a few like-minded labs at places like Stanford and Harvard have shown that, when infused with blood from young mice, old ones heal faster, move quicker, think better, remember more. The experiments reverse almost every indicator of aging the teams have probed so far: It fixes signs of heart failure, improves bone healing, regrows pancreatic cells, and speeds spinal cord repair. “It sounds sensational, almost like pseudoscience,” says Villeda. It’s some of the most provocative aging research in decades.
These studies, which use a peculiar surgical method called parabiosis that turns mice into literal blood brothers, show... Click above to read on...
"Such beauty. Surely you are one of God's own creations and not a descendant of those dark creatures who found no refuge on the Ark. Such beauty. Yet deadly."
Finally finished my larger Mermay project! Philip and Syrena, from the grossly underrated "Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides"