The clock could be turned back on ageing with a groundbreaking new therapy that aims to recharge cells with “batteries” from the placenta of newborns.

Israel-based Minovia Therapeutics is the first company in the world to start testing mitochondrial transplantation in humans, which could treat incurable diseases and keep bodies younger for longer.

Mitochondria are tiny compartments within cells that act like batteries, supplying the cell with the energy it needs to function.

In ageing and certain diseases, the mitochondria stop working efficiently, starving the cells of energy, similar to the batteries running down in a machine.

But scientists have now shown that it is possible to “augment” cells with supercharged mitochondria from the placenta.

Minovia has already completed clinical

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