Just what we need: baby boomers who never die.
I'm not proud to say I'd have a lot of schadenfreude if they wait until after Kurzweil passes before they make the world changing breakthrough which eliminates natural death
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
#22Original 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…
basically that evolution favours traits that are beneficial during reproductive age, regardless of negative effects later in life
Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years
#23Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/678/
Re: Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years
#24My 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
#25Just what we need: baby boomers who never die.
I'm not proud to say I'd have a lot of schadenfreude if they wait until after Kurzweil passes before they make the world changing breakthrough which eliminates natural death