> The team, including Juntendo University professor Toru Minamino, confirmed that mice administered with the vaccine showed decreases in the zombie cells, medically known as senescent cells, and in areas affected by arterial stiffening.
By now this has become a trope. "Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}" ... in mice.
Mouse models of human disease are very limited in their predictive ability. There's a lot of research that needs to follow this before there's even a hope of a human trial, let alone vaccine. And the failure rate for treatments at the mouse stage is quite high.
Some of the comments on this thread treat this research paper as the announcement of an an imminent anti-aging vaccine. It's not.
By now this has become a trope. "Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}" ... in mice.
Mouse models of human disease are very limited in their predictive ability. There's a lot of research that needs to follow this before there's even a hope of a human trial, let alone vaccine. And the failure rate for treatments at the mouse stage is quite high.
Some of the comments on this thread treat this research paper as the announcement of an an imminent anti-aging vaccine. It's not.