Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent
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#2> The technique, which requires genetic engineering, cannot be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues by other means.
Still a ways off for human use but definitely interesting research.
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#5Lets hope so!
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#6> The technique, which requires genetic engineering, cannot be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues by other means. Still a ways off for human use but definitely interesting research.
You have to understand all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible. So if aging can be reduced or cured we will be able to do it and probably relatively soon.
And this quest is as old as civilization, maybe even older:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
"He ruled until his death in 210 BC after a futile search for an elixir of immortality"
Re: Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent
#7> The technique, which requires genetic engineering, cannot be applied directly to people, but the achievement points toward better understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues by other means. Still a ways off for human use but definitely interesting research.
You have to understand all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible. So if aging can be reduced or cured we will be able to do it and probably relatively soon. And this quest is as old as civilization, maybe even older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang "He ruled until his death in 210 BC after a futile search for an elixir of immortality"
> all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible
This is generally true of poor people as well.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to understand all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible. So if aging can be reduced or cured we will be able to do it and probably relatively soon. And this quest is as old as civilization, maybe even older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang "He ruled until his death in 210 BC after a futile search for an elixir of immortality"
> all the rich people in the world are scared of death and will pay anything to avoid it for as long as possible This is generally true of poor people as well.
Yes, but poor people can't pay. That's why they can't solve anything. Google can spend a billion dollars on this. Multiple billions can be easily spent on this. And it's a great time for that. So much excessive capital. So many millionaires and billionaires. All going to die. What can scientists do to help them?
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#9Mightier and bloody wars will not be caused than when we finally figure out how to cure ageing.
Re: Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent
#10A Scientific American article on the same research with a useful comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187302
Interesting bits:
"In living mice they activated the four genes (known as “Yamanaka factors,” for researcher Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobelist who discovered their combined potential in 2006). This approach rejuvenated damaged muscles and the pancreas in a middle-aged mouse, ... "
"... These (other) approaches can reverse some aspects of aging, such as muscle degeneration—but aging returns when the treatment stops, he adds. With an approach like the one Belmonte lays out in the new study, theoretically “you could have one treatment and go back 10 or 20 years,” he says. If aging starts to catch up to you again, you simply get another treatment."