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Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by Kliment »

derefr wrote: post #126
jws wrote: post #118

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MRI is much lower resolution than X-ray. Dental researchers are speculating about using MRI for some uses, like implant planning, but the laws of physics are not in favor of reducing the voxel size to match the small features identified with X-rays. My dentist just upgraded their gear, the tech no longer leaves the room when shooting the image, and I didn't get a lead blanket. Presumably that means the technology imp…

I don't know much about MRI technology, but would you get an improvement in resolution if the whole machine was scaled down (i.e. because it only needs to fit someone's head in it, rather than their whole body)?

There's already head-only MRI machines. Like all MRI machines, they are phenomenally expensive to operate, eat shittons of energy, and only make sense if they're in constant use. But yes, reducing bore size improves resolution.

Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by netizen-936824 »

majkinetor wrote: post #114
netizen-936824 wrote: post #57

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Really? Because they get experimented on and then slaughtered by the thousands

You forgot tiny detail that they live in prison for entire life eating equivalent of Mc Donalds or worse.

This is true. Everything held constant nothing changing and its far too cold. Its worse than being in US prison, somehow

Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by majkinetor »

sva_ wrote: post #107
rmbyrro wrote: post #88

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At least some get lucky and sometimes slow down aging - for example - when things work out. I don't want to think about what the others go through when things go wrong, though...

Pretty sure they'll still get killed once the experiment is completed.

The term used in papers is often 'sacrificed'.

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Post by slickrick216 »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

Sign me up for this the second it is available. As an aside, to spite anti vaxxers I’m on a mission to get every vaccine I can. I want my bloodstream to be like the Library at Alexandria before it burned down.

I hope this is satire. The medical industry doesn’t always have your best intentions at heart. From talcum powder to thalidomide. Be careful.

Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by therec »

mmastrac wrote: post #87
tux3 wrote: post #64

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You have antibodies that will bind to just about anything foreign, including viruses that your body has never seen before, M-type immunoglobulin (IgM). It's the kind of antibodies that responds in the first phases of an infection. The problem is that IgMs are not very specific. They bind to a lot of things, but they bind poorly. In the library of Alexandria analogy, it's like a book that happens to mention a subject…

Is there a good resource to learn more about this without a Biology degree? I always assumed the body generated matching snippets at random and the law of large numbers would result in a match eventually.

I like the videos of the Amoeba Sisters. I’m not a biologist, but I feel they go really deep in the subjects while still being relatively easy to understand. Immune system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEFXl2XQpc Vaccines: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVUf_pt7Sh0

Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by Jansen312 »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

Sign me up for this the second it is available. As an aside, to spite anti vaxxers I’m on a mission to get every vaccine I can. I want my bloodstream to be like the Library at Alexandria before it burned down.

Yeah, why be immuned when you can be invincible. Keep us updated when you gotten all the vax injected. How you plan to deal with recurring one that become ineffective fast like the rabbies vax. You scheduled every couple of weeks? Maybe an online blog and checklist to motivate others to compete who get jabbed the most.

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Post by mechanical_bear »

dukeofdoom wrote: post #128
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

Sign me up for this the second it is available. As an aside, to spite anti vaxxers I’m on a mission to get every vaccine I can. I want my bloodstream to be like the Library at Alexandria before it burned down.

And yet you still won't be fully protected. Seems to me there's lots of vaxx regret from the double dosed, when they find out about omicron. I'll check if you post in a few months. Otherwise, thank you for your contribution to science. In the mean time, don't recommend taking up competitive soccer.

Vaxx regret? Nah, I’m good.

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Post by lvs »

blip54321 wrote: post #7
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

Sign me up for this the second it is available. As an aside, to spite anti vaxxers I’m on a mission to get every vaccine I can. I want my bloodstream to be like the Library at Alexandria before it burned down.

You already have the Library of Alexandria. That's your lymph nodes. What vaccines do is move some books to the front of the building, so your dentritic cells don't have to spend a few days finding them. You want the right books at the front. A mission to move all the books to the front is perhaps misguided.

No, your analogy is wrong. You have a million monkeys with a million typewriters. Vaccination just reproduces the things that look like books.

Re: Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging

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Post by dr_dshiv »

tux3 wrote: post #76
dr_dshiv wrote: post #26

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I’m with you. I’ve gotten vaccinated for everything my doctor lets me. Japanese Encephalitis? Pshaw. I don’t even know what it is, but good luck with my immune system. It’s like getting a superpower in a video game! And, vaccines have general positive effects of health: https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-maga...

I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong, but I would be more careful than that. Infections can be the trigger for auto-immune diseases. We're not sure precisely how, but there seems to be a complex combination of genetic and environmental factors. Your immune system is very much not playing games, it's in the business of reacting on a hair trigger, and doing more damage to foreign bodies than it does to your own…

This would be like being worried about playing outside and being exposed to germs. Yes, it’s true that every new infection has the possibility of killing you. But, now we have evidence that exposure to diverse mild pathogens actually makes your immune system less dangerous to the self. Otherwise it would be safer to live in a clean room.
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