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>> megyn, you are a spring chicken but i'm thinking about your children, what they can do later on and i think factor x could lead to a pill that people will be able to take when they're a lot older. let's listen to johnny hueeur describe factor x and what he thinks about it. >> i'm a dreamer and this is what we do, we do science because we think that we can improve quality of life of patients by doing study. basic science research, to try to understand, and when we understand that, then we can make -- maybe we can provide factor x and use this in a pill somehow that can be used to decrease th...

Mice two to three times. treating diseases like dementia, bone problems, heart problems, muscular problems. unbelievable. they found out the cells, immature sells secret something called factor x. factor x worked all over the mouse's body rejuvenating the mice. let's see what one of the head researchers had to say about this. >> now you can see if we can improve the lifespan of the animal but also the us too. we look at signs of osteoporosis. signs of neurodegeneration, with we delete those signs of aging which is very important. >> jon, dr. huard was very impressed with this factor x. he thin...

Toward the end of her life. may take five or 10 years but something we can look forward to in the near future. let's hear what she had to say about it. >> these stem cells may secret something that has rejuvenating capacity. the fact it is a substance or mixture of substances, that means that we can reproduce these in laboratories and make thee in large quantities that is ultimate goal for therapeutics, whether a drug or molecule or peptide rather than using stem cells or cell therapy. >> john, she is talking about factor x. i'm looking for that in the future. i think we'll see studies in huma...

She gets to be old to reinject them to live longer. this is amazing stuff. martha: how far off are we from the possibility that someone could do that? that young, that kids, that my kids could bank some of their stem cells to help fight off some of these things that happen when you grow older? >> martha, i asked them that. they seemed to think within five to 10 years we'll see work within humans on this. the doctor from the university of pittsburgh school of medicine said the key is the factor x, this mysterious substance the cells are producing. you put the cells in the abdomen, next thing yo...