A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
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A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
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Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#2Here's a link to the newscientist article on the same discovery:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-tim...
And the actual paper (the full paper is behind a paywall): http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01521-3
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#3Link to the abstract on PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24582957
Original is behind a paywall.
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I'd take all this with a grain of salt, though. The biology of aging is incredibly complex. Seemingly certain answers to the question of what causes or mediates aging (e.g. free radicals) have turned out to be less conclusive and all-explaining than researchers originally thought.
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#4Here's a link to the newscientist article on the same discovery: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24784-turning-back-tim... And the actual paper (the full paper is behind a paywall): http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01521-3
Working link to actual article: http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413015213
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#5Its a promising result, but a lot of mice experiments don't have the same effects on people. It would be ironic if this technique failed on humans subjected to a lot of exposure to botox :-) The fear is that suddenly not only would the rich get richer, but they would never die. That leads to some fairly depressing scenarios.
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#6Here's a better article that describes the same work: http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-ag...
Less hype, more technical detail.
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#7Its a promising result, but a lot of mice experiments don't have the same effects on people. It would be ironic if this technique failed on humans subjected to a lot of exposure to botox :-) The fear is that suddenly not only would the rich get richer, but they would never die. That leads to some fairly depressing scenarios.
Step 1. Get rich. Same as it ever was.
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#8Its a promising result, but a lot of mice experiments don't have the same effects on people. It would be ironic if this technique failed on humans subjected to a lot of exposure to botox :-) The fear is that suddenly not only would the rich get richer, but they would never die. That leads to some fairly depressing scenarios.
The rich would not get richer. They would stay alive and stick around until they got poorer and eventually died.
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#9There was also this interview with Australian ABC around the publication of the article.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/researchers-reverse-sy...
Apparently the video has "expired" so please refer to e.g. http://www.filedropper.com/researchersreversesymptomsofagein... for that (as an aside, I'd appreciate advice about less obtrusive file upload services)
Re: A New—and Reversible—Cause of Aging
#10Its a promising result, but a lot of mice experiments don't have the same effects on people. It would be ironic if this technique failed on humans subjected to a lot of exposure to botox :-) The fear is that suddenly not only would the rich get richer, but they would never die. That leads to some fairly depressing scenarios.
I'm pretty sure if possible, serious anti-aging technogy will drop in price due to incredible market demand. It's highly unlikely the compound relies on resources that are extremely rare.
Even if that were the case, someone would quickly find a way to replicate the procedure without the rare resources.
Likely the things in the way would be governments and corporations trying to profit through IP.
In that case, black market tech would be developed and you could likely go to an unregulated / 3rd world country to get the procedure done.