TRINITY
TRIPOD Hartford, CT
Reprint
The Trinity Tripod w Trinity College w 300 Summit Street w Hartford, CT 06106
2
that certain anti-inflammatory drugs might help prevent the onset of specific neurodegenerative
disorders.
Additional studies suggest that injecting the blood plasma of younger mice into
older mice shows an increase in cognitive function for mice. In a series of studies, a
colleague of Professor Wyss-Coray at Stanford Medical School injected elderly mice with
the blood plasma of younger mice. A number of his findings defied the traditional aging
models— though, further research is needed to see how long these effects last. This
research suggests that the fountain of youth may not be at the furthest reaches of the Earth,
but rather inside each of us.
