Yamanaka Factors - Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision

Thought this was an interesting read:

Could be a possible curative mechanism once we know exactly which tissues are methylated. I believe Professor Sinclair also did a podcast with Joe Rogan some time ago.

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Cool. Very interesting article.

Maybe I can have 20 years of my life back after all!

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Indeed. If the therapy was able to reset the methylation patterns within the eye. It should be in theory be able to work within many other tissues. I think even Sinclair himself mentioned that at one point.
Found another relevent article here: https://www.genengnews.com/news/epigenetic-reset-reverses-age-and-glaucoma-damage-related-vision-loss-in-mice/

Seems like a few companies are testing out and trying to commercialize this kind of technology:

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