Bryan Johnson(@bryan_johnson):This is great news. As you age, sugar binding to your proteins creates stiff, sticky chemical scars that affect skin, arteries, eyes and more. It was considered irreversible and now may be reversible, restoring to a healthy state. Researches did this by using AlphaFold to search 45,000 oxidases, then screened more than 500 million engineered variants through directed evolution. The work is still ex vivo in a lab setting. Delivering a large bacterial enzyme safely into living tissues, with sufficient penetration and bioavailability, remains a major challenge.

2026.07.16 16:17

This is great news. As you age, sugar binding to your proteins creates stiff, sticky chemical scars that affect skin, arteries, eyes and more. It was considered irreversible and now may be reversible, restoring to a healthy state. Researches did this by using AlphaFold to search 45,000 oxidases, then screened more than 500 million engineered variants through directed evolution. The work is still ex vivo in a lab setting. Delivering a large bacterial enzyme safely into living tissues, with sufficient penetration and bioavailability, remains a major challenge.