Innovation in medicine: the first patient to receive gene therapy aimed at cell rejuvenation

Andreea Neblea

The American biotechnology company Life Biosciences announced last week that it has administered the first experimental treatment ER-100 to a patient suffering from glaucoma, one of the main causes of blindness. The therapy pursues a goal that until recently seemed taken from science fiction literature: to cause aged cells to behave like young cells again, according to articles published by Business Insider, Nature and Science Alert. The sources cited claim that, if the experiment succeeds, it