A biohacker’s first-person account about generating induced pluripotent stem cells from his own blood, and what this personal experiment could mean for future regenerative medicine readers.
Key Takeaways
- Creator reprogrammed his 48-year-old blood cells into induced pluripotent stem cells using Yamanaka factors
- He claims the iPSCs have had their epigenetic age reset to an embryonic-like state
- He plans to scale and lower costs so individuals can obtain autologous iPSCs for potential tissue repair