Aging: The Root Disease Explained with Yamanaka's Discovery | David Friedberg | Chris Williamson

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]It looks like the root of all disease may be aging. And aging is a disease.

[00:00:04]So, it is a disease rooted in the fact that the epigenetic factors, these little molecules, move around in the wrong place.

[00:00:11]That's what we discovered is basically aging.

[00:00:14]In 2006, a guy named Shinya Yamanaka found that he could take four proteins and put them on a cell. They would go into the cell and they would move all of those epigenetic markers, those ones and zeros, to make that cell into a stem cell, which can then be turned into any other cell in the body. So, that was the magic thing he won the Nobel Prize for.