“At first, some made some people laugh. »» When he started his first research work on the rejuvenation of cells almost twenty years ago, Jean-Marc Lemaître, director of research at Inserm and co-director of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies in Montpellier, aroused astonishment in part of his colleagues. The researcher, who previously worked on embryonic development, has just won funding in 2006 to start his new project on genomic plasticity and aging.
At the time, the estate enjoys an unflattering reputation, considered by some as the refuge of the somewhat whimsical minds in search of eternity. Few researchers dare to venture there. Even the publishing houses of scientific journals are cautious. The researcher experienced it, in 2011, on the occasion of the publication of the conclusions of the study he has just completed with his team on the rejuvenation of senescent human cells. “We had to fight for the publisher to keep the word“ rejuvenation ”in the title, when it was however what we were demonstrating. I had to threaten him to go see another publishing house »he recalls.
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