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Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

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Re: Humans Could Live up to 150 Years, New Research Suggests

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Post by salemh »

hodgesrm wrote: post #112
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> We really haven’t made an effort to study aging. We haven't? Just 2 seconds of googling "study aging" brings up results from places like Harvard, the NIH, RAND and hundreds of other universities where people study aging all day everyday.

Indeed. Geriatric medicine has been a thing for millennia. [1] I worked at the UW Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Seattle for several years in the 1980s. Research on aging was a major topic. The minimal progress on cures for Alzheimer's since that time should be sobering to anyone claiming that we can hack humans to extend lifespan significantly. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatrics

Long-term side effects of drugs, and lack of accountability of these companies is certainly an issue and sometimes takes decades to come out.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/benzodiazepine-use-may-r... 2014 - People who had taken a benzodiazepine for three months or less had about the same dementia risk as those who had never taken one. Taking the drug for three to six months raised the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 32%, and taking it for more than six months boosted the risk by 84%.

https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2019/dementia-slee... 2019 - The study, released today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2019, included a racially diverse group of 3,068 people, ages 70 to 79, who were cognitively healthy when the study began. Researchers questioned the participants about their use of sleeping pills and culled information about them from medical records and tests of brain function over a 15-year period.

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Post by TaupeRanger »

nscalf wrote: post #124
TaupeRanger wrote: post #10

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Is having? Where? I see nothing that leads to me believe the evidence-free hype around longevity. I think it's early to say it's happening now . Eventually? Sure...maybe.

We can now make the safest, most effective vaccines ever in 2 days. We're making huge advancements with mRNA. CRSPR is still a new technology that is being rapidly improved. Last years big biotech story was that we have more or less solved the protein folding problem, which effectively gives us strong predictive power. So yes, it's happening now. We're still in the early stages of it, but it is without a doubt happen…

mRNA gave us a vaccine - very good but not a revolution by any means. We would've gotten effective vaccines from other sources. Nothing else has done anything. CRISPR hasn't done anything in humans. Protein folding prediction hasn't done anything. Lab grown tissue hasn't done anything in humans. It is not happening in any way.

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Post by inglor_cz »

hulitu wrote: post #75
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Being able to produce any protein in the body with mRNA seems like a pretty big leap.

Bio(n)tech is Godzilla.

Oh, a Sepultura fan.

They were big in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s. A Brazilian band, but resonated with Central European metalheads a lot.

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Post by [deleted] »

cglace wrote: post #57
threatofrain wrote: post #51

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But most people's account of any national, state, or city history for any event whatsoever cannot beat a quick search on Wikipedia. I'm not sure how much value there is in informal recollections of past events. Have you ever heard a great retelling of history? It always seems to come from those who have invested Serious Effort to master a historical narrative, especially when they work with a community of fellow peer…

Yeah, why ask the person who was in WWII what it was like. Just jump on wikipedia and it'll be like your on Omaha beach.

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Post by elcritch »

nscalf wrote: post #128
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I think the biggest step will come once we start transplanting organs from clones of ourselves. Apart from traumatic or infectious diseases, being able to replace most vital organs would extend our lives to the last remaining non-transplant-able organ.

Back in 2020, a Japanese team did the worlds first transplant of lab grown heart cells into a patient. There is definitely progress being made on this.

Even more fun is 3D printing the desired structure and scaffolding of the target tissue or organ.

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Post by junon »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #90
junon wrote: post #63

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I don't think age has anything to do with it, and Fox News has plenty of younger viewers as well. I think education, ideology, and sensationalism have more (everything?) to do with it.

According to POS: https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-... The only big difference between Fox and other networks is that they have way less college educated viewers as a percentage of total viewers. Not sure how good of a source that is, though. There's several (not great) sources online I can see that say the average FOX News viewer is >65. I also see that the average CNN & MSNBC viewer is >5…

This is a correlation at best. An interesting one, but no more interesting than "ice cream sales and shark attacks follow the same curve".

There's probably no real way of knowing exactly why Fox News has the viewers it does. We can only guess.

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Post by dTal »

kilbuz wrote: post #83
optimalsolver wrote: post #40

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I seriously feel pissed about all the wonders of the future I'll never get to witness. All the things the human race is going to do. All the places it will go. Of course, that's assuming our species doesn't suffer a biotech apocalypse before then.

I'll take being the last generation to experience childhood without the internet and mobile phones, and it's not even close.

I'm sure there are plenty of kids worldwide today without internet and mobile phones. Maybe even the majority.

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Post by dTal »

tmp231 wrote: post #101
duckfang wrote: post #93

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No. That's called bible-thumping. In our world, it's trivially easy to get hold of any major religion's works, and only moderately difficult to get hold of smaller religion's works, primarily due to translation issues. And in light of context, you weren't comparing the writings or showing different religions' thoughts on human longevity - you were implicitly stating that your choice of religion was the right one, by…

Secularism is its own religion and gets quoted often around here. Guess you’ll just have to learn to be tolerant.

Unless you want to debase the world "religion" until it no longer has any meaning - no, it isn't.

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Post by tmp231 »

dTal wrote: post #159
tmp231 wrote: post #101

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Secularism is its own religion and gets quoted often around here. Guess you’ll just have to learn to be tolerant.

Unless you want to debase the world "religion" until it no longer has any meaning - no, it isn't.

It’s a set of beliefs about how you should view and act in the world, that’s good enough.
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