Santander, (EFE).- The Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) has begun its summer courses with a notice from the scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa about the “pressing problem” of aging.
The director of the Altos Lab Science Institute, in San Diego, has assured that aging will cause “a large part” of the population to have diseases “that we do not know how to cure.”
For this reason, it has opted for cell rejuvenation as a way to make cells “resilient” and reverse these pathologies.
The scientist stressed that the World Health Organization indicates that in the coming years 1,600 million people in the world will be over 65 and in Spain, 30% of the population will exceed that age.
rejuvenate cells
The Izpisúa laboratory has managed to reverse diseases in mice by increasing the resilience capacity of their cells,
In this sense, the pharmacist has given as an example that some rodents with a tendency to obesity and poor nutrition, lost weight, making their cells more “young” and “resilient”, and others, with diseases, managed to remit them.
Izpisúa has asked the scientific community to work on demonstrating that these mechanisms “work, are safe and efficient”, in addition to “informing the public” and generating ethical or legal debates to “move from the mouse to the person”.
With this message, the scientist opened the UIMP summer courses in Santander before the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, the acting president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, the rector of the institution, Carlos Andradas, and the mayoress of Santander , Same Gem.
Subirats recalled that these courses will have the European Union as the common thread and has underlined the “very significant level” of the speakers to “contribute” to the great debates in society.
In a message projected at the Paraninfo de la Magdalena, where the event was held, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, addressed the students, saying that “Europe needs leaders” to reaffirm its economic model And social. “The Europe we want depends on you”, she affirmed.
Institutional defense of the UIMP
Revilla highlighted the role of the UIMP as a “focus of knowledge and coexistence”. “It truly internationalizes us,” she assured.
And regarding what Izpisúa said, he has assured that at 80 years old “reversing the cells” is “already too late”, but he has stressed that it is “a whole world to discover” from which the youngest will benefit.
The rector of the UIMP has made a parallel between the scientist’s conference and his institution and has asked to “protect” his DNA and “avoid deterioration” over the years
He has also dedicated a few words to the acting Government of Cantabria, with a mention of the Vice President and Minister of Universities, Pablo Zuloaga, and has hoped to find “dialogue and sensitivity” in the new Executive of the PP.
The mayoress of Santander has reaffirmed the “decisive support for the institution” of the City Council of the capital and has guaranteed the continuity of the “path of collaboration”.