truth is stranger than fiction

I was watching "House Call" on FOX news Sunday and the doctors were discussing a new study that shows that transfusing the plasma from a young mouse into and older mouse with heart disease or Alzheimer's showed a marked improvement. It is thought to be a protein in the plasma that changes as we age that leads to many problems with aging, from heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, arthritis to lesser ones like wrinkles and baldness. Studies are being planned that could lead to treatments involving taking the blood from young people and giving it to old people as a cure. I remember this show and the basic idea for a man with "perfect' blood being kidnapped by an old rich guy so he could get transfusions as needed. Life imitates art once again...