Will age be just a number?

American polymath Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “...in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Well, taxes may remain a certainty in life but death, in the future, can become an opt-in feature.

Turning the clock back, a team led by molecular biologist David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, according to a recent media report, has managed reverse ageing in mice by employing proteins that can turn an adult cell into a stem cell. The lab rats are real-life Benjamin Button!

In an earlier breakthrough, published in late 2020, the team restored the damaged retinas of old mice and improved their vision to new-born levels.