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I translated a scientific article in Japanese into English. I would appreciate if you could correct my mistakes. thank you.
Title: We might get younger if we use iPS cell technology.
The research team at the University of Tsukuba reported that iPS cell technology can reproduce cells which have already lost their ability of generating energy. This disproves established theory. Many people hope this kind of technology can be developed soon and can be applied to humans.
Mitochondria inside cells produce energy by using oxygen, but as they age, their ability to do this is decreased. Previously, this decrease was believed to be caused by genetic mutation. If it were true, however, iPS cells couldn’t regenerate this ability.
The research team investigated the skin cells of four younger people (infancy to 12 years old) and four elderly people (80 to 97 years old). The extent of genetic mutation in both group were almost identical and therefore the established theory was not correct.
Then, the research team manipulated cells of elderly people to create iPS cells, and after that, to transform them into skin cells. These skin cells recovered their lost ability of generating energy.
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