The key text is in the first paragraph of the boxed, italicized paragraph. "Induced pluripotent stem cells" can be generated from ordinary human tissue. Peopl

The key text is in the first paragraph of the boxed, italicized paragraph. "Induced pluripotent stem cells" can be generated from ordinary human tissue. People have been doing that for a while. However, the stem cells produced this way senesce after surprisingly few generations. Biotime researchers have shown that by overexpressing telomerase, they are able to delay this sencescence substantially. This validates the hypothesis that telomere degradation was the cause of the senescence. This is important basic science, but unlikely to lead to a silver bullet for aging any time soon.