World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person

Ledford, Heidi

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A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged cells in the eye.

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  1. Heidi Ledford

    1. Heidi Ledford reports for Nature from Seattle, Washington.

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene-therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells to take on a younger identity.

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Nature 654, 583 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01836-7

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