Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Believes Aging May Come Down to a Cell's Identity Crisis

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Believes Aging May Come Down to a Cell's Identity Crisis Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. For decades, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte focused on unlocking the secrets of human life at its earliest stages. A pioneer in developmental biology and a long-time professor at the Salk Institute, he used Shinya Yamanaka's game-changing discovery of four genes that can essentially rewind the clock--turning adult cells to a younger state--to better understand how a fertilized egg turns into a human. Izpisua Belmonte's groundbreaking studies include creating the first embryo containing both human and monkey cells in 2021 to better study the steps that occur well before birth.