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Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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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…

Progress is a journey of many small steps.

Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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Would 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.

Arguably, bioinformatics was one of the driving forces which differentiated early machine learning methods from classical statistical methods.

Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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Earlier 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.

We should use ML to identify other possible lens through which to view our world perhaps even..

Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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My god the clickbait is getting bad. This is the kind of title I would expect to see in a supermarket rag

For some reason all topics involving the ageing progress have clickbaity headlines when repeated by the news. How come that they always call it 'reversing', when it obviously can't be nothing more than 'slowing down'?

Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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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…

> This is (very) partial compensation for downstream effects of aging, achieved without addressing any of the root causes.

That sounds a lot like what medicine does against most of diseases anyway.

Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

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My god the clickbait is getting bad. This is the kind of title I would expect to see in a supermarket rag

So true ... and it's making it to the front page!

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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