Coming soon, body parts that never wear out.Byline: ANI London, October 20 (ANI): British scientists are working on regenerative therapies that could help centenarians Here is a list of well-known centenarians (people who lived to be or are living at 100 years or more of age), with the still living ones bolded and italicized. This list is divided into sub-lists, according to how the centenarian (mostly) became well-known. have bodies of 50-year-olds in the future. Researchers at Leeds University will be shelling out 50 million pounds over five years to come up with solutions to pull off "50 active years after 50" by providing pensioners with longer lasting replacement body parts. Investigator Professor John Fisher
Saint John Fisher also John Cardinal Fisher (c. 1469 – 1535), was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal and martyr. revealed the "combination of a durable cobalt-chrome metal alloy socket and a ceramic ball means the joint should easily withstand the 100 million steps that a 50-year-old can be expected to take by their 100th birthday", reports the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . Meanwhile, colleague Professor Eileen Ingham and her team have been working on making transplantable tissues, and eventually organs, that the body can make on its own, to tackle the fear of rejection. Professor Christina Doyle of Xeno Medical, the medical device company that is developing the technologies, said: "To replace all donor tissue donor tissue, n the tissue contributed by a donor to be used in tissue or organ transplant. using this technology will take 30 to 50 years. Each single product will need to be designed and tested individually." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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