Could a pill hold the secret to defying age? Scientists say they've foune 'the holy grail' of anti-ageing herald breakthrough technology that makes cells act twenty years younger
By Nicole Pierre
Daily Mail Australia
May 14, 2018
Australian researchers have developed an anti-ageing drug that could delay and even reverse the ageing process.
'We may be able to take a 60-year-old’s cells and make them 40,' Dr Ken O'Byrne told 7 News.
Researchers working tirelessly in the labs at Queensland University's Technology Cancer and Ageing Research Program (CARP) believe they’ve found the fountain of youth.
'We believe we've found the holy grail,' Dr Derek Richard said.
The anti-ageing drug is believed to also stop a range of other incurable health conditions including cancer, Alzheimer's and heart diseases.
'This drug could prevent them all, delay their onset or even reverse it,' 7 News reports.
According to CARP's site, DNA becomes more susceptible to damage as we get older and this unrepaired damage to DNA often leads to diseases such as cancer, dementia and arthritis.
QUT Professor Dr Ken O’Byrne said the discovery gave him 'hairs on the back of my neck.'
Yet the lab requires five million dollars to turn the compound they've created into an everyday pill.
To donate to the laboratory's research, you can head to CARP's website.
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