Original publicity materials: http://www.salk.edu/news-release/turning-back-time-salk-scie... As I've said in the past, it has always been pretty random as to what the popular press picks up versus what they ignore in the output of the aging research community. Possibly it doesn't much matter, as they'll horribly mangle the significance and meaning regardless. In this case, this is an intervention which falls into th…
Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years
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#13Would it be possible to apply machine learning to the human genome to discover other therapies similar to this one? I'm sure there are groups working on something similar, does anyone know of any offhand?
People have been applying ML to genome analysis ever since it was first sequenced.
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#14Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/678/
Alt: "A technology that is '20 years away' will be 20 years away indefinitely."
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does a light grey comment mean on HN? I've always thought it meant the post had received some downvotes, but this one is grey and is a perfectly fine post. I've been seeing a lot of this for a week or more now.
I think it's because people are tired of "but what about ML applied to [OP topic]?" It's quite frankly tiresome to keep seeing the world from the same lens, as if software trends are applicable to all other scientific advancements.
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#17My god the clickbait is getting bad. This is the kind of title I would expect to see in a supermarket rag
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#18Original publicity materials: http://www.salk.edu/news-release/turning-back-time-salk-scie... As I've said in the past, it has always been pretty random as to what the popular press picks up versus what they ignore in the output of the aging research community. Possibly it doesn't much matter, as they'll horribly mangle the significance and meaning regardless. In this case, this is an intervention which falls into th…
That sounds a lot like what medicine does against most of diseases anyway.
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#19My god the clickbait is getting bad. This is the kind of title I would expect to see in a supermarket rag
My next article is going to be "Get the bald look naturally" followed by a paragraph or two of text that says nothing and a countdown timer for 50 years.
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#20Just what we need: baby boomers who never die.