New York, Oct 20: Can a dose of young blood rejuvenate brain cells and stave off old age? A medical researcher has told the Society for Neuroscience's annual conference in New Orleans, that it is possible.
Giving blood from younger mice to ageing mice rejuvenated connections between brain cells and improved memory, the researcher claimed his experiments have shown, reports Daily Mail.
The treatment is so effective that 18-month-old animals did as well in memory tests as those of only four months. Mice usually live to between 18 months and two years.
If the treatment is shown to be safe and as successful in humans, it could be used to stave off the ravages of old age.
Those in middle-age could be given regular jabs of blood donated by 20-somethings.
