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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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post #6

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

I see some mean spirited stuff on here from time to time but this really takes the cake.

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…

A variation on this idea of an "evolved balance between death by cancer and death by frailty" is described here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/sunday/octopuses-...

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

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post #17

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'?

Why can't it be 'reversing', or at least reversing effects of ageing? A major part of ageing is the progressive degradation of the body's ability to repair itself, resulting in illness. If a therapy improves the ability of the body to repair itself, and age related illnesses are thus overcome, then arguably ageing has been reversed.

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

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post #6

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

Hmm, like some kind of karmic-payback on behalf of all the people who have (and will-have) believed his recurrent predictions and then died because the predictions were too optimistic?
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