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Technology & AISep 8, 2026

This geneticist’s age-reversal tech could help restore sight

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging.

Yuancheng (Ryan) Lu is obsessed with aging. And with eyes. As he steps outside the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his aviator glasses darken automatically in the sun. Age-related blindness runs in his family. A great-aunt in China, the story goes, was killed…

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