Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation::In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary approach offers a potential alternative to gene therapy for age reversal. The findings could transform treatments for age-re
Before people lose their minds, this research, while interesting, is very far from true aging reversal. At most it could be one aspect of it.
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Why does the woman in the first photo appear to be molding?
Molting*
can you name a better way to ride in the multipassenger HOV lane when nobody else is going your direction?
save that shit, molts come in handy
Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.
I was thinking Henry Kissinger
Grandma’s a hottie
Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!
Jokes aside, are we just cribbing from sci-fi cart blânche these days?! I mean, sure “Art imitates Life imitates Art”, but still. When the only dead are the poors (>99% of humanity itself), the entire species will certainly collapse. (Where’s the “bridge of nose pinch + sigh” emoji when you need it?) 🤷🏼♂️
All technology is initially available to only the rich. But it can be widely available, if people demand it.
Also, those pills don’t work anyway so don’t get too worried yet.
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I don’t really understand this viewpoint but treatments for aging won’t make you immortal which is almost certainly impossible. You’ll still die, you’ll just be healthier for a longer period, possibly a much longer period.
I came to the thread to post that, but here it is on the top ✊
Yeah, check out Altered Carbon (the first book or the first season) for how this would likely play out.
I like how you only mentioned the first season, I didn’t watch season 2 at all…
Avoid, though I respect Anthony Mackie for trying with that “script”. Be happy with S1 and look no further
Anthony Mackie did great with what he had to work with. But the writing sucked.
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The other implication of that show is that you need to keep paying, even after you’re dead. You are no longer earning anything in the afterlife and are entirely dependent on having family/friends/loved ones continue paying for your access to the upper tier. But once the “second death” where people forget about you happens, the poor experience is inevitable, and you accept that you’re nothing more than a scanned consciousness to be used by this corporation for profit.
Enshittification - not just for social media anymore…
Don’t worry we’ll live forever too since now we won’t have to retire
I guess this is the future that will come sooner or later…
Btw if someone doubts about it - it’s already happening. Here is the example.
All technology is initially available to only the rich. But it can be widely available, if people demand it.
Also, those pills don’t work anyway so don’t get too worried yet.
Peter Thiel and probably Donald Trump have supposedly been injecting themselves with children’s blood, or at least a derivative from their blood.
Without paywall: https://archive.is/QX1w7
i can browse the page without paywall in Firefox android
Sometimes paywalls only hit you after you’ve visited a handful of articles.
this is the worst it’s just going to be available to rich assholes
So aging will become a sign of poverty?
It already is
I’m greying before 30, this feels accurate.
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At first it isn’t, but as you go more and more grey it becomes a lot harder to manage on your own, especially if you started with dark hair. It’s depressing to be young and constantly fighting a losing battle against the grey. I was like 16 when it started, by my very early 30s the whole of the top of my hair was completely grey.
“As long as men die. Liberty will never fail.”
Ah, want to be old ! Can it speed body decaying?
Meth’s the chemical you want for that! Because nothing beats that 28-going-on-82 look!
Lol
alright alright, where do I sign up?
The comments be like: I didn’t read the article, here my pissed off reaction calling for 1984
Good thing you brought us a bunch of useful information with you from the other side.
Op didn’t read the article either
Full text of actual paper: https://www.aging-us.com/full/204896
Tldr; seems like decent science and the compounds used are fairly ordinary ones for the most part. Note however this is all in vitro so far and it might be a challenge to deliver the same chemicals in the same concentrations to all the senescent cells of the body.
Prepare to see these ingredients added in insignificant amounts to expensive skin creams before the year is out, whether they can penetrate the epidermis or not
This feels like stuff from a Star Trek episode.
Our society is so far from that though. I feel like this would break our society currently where the rich will only have access to it.
Hope that arc to Mars finishes soon enough. Apparently we will pay to live longer, but not to survive.
The sci-fi type implications of this would be astounding. We would see a rapidly increasing global population with high natural resource use. On a philosophical level, is living forever a blessing or a curse?
We could start by giving it to congress
Immortal, corrupt, power-mad billionaires, great idea…
Wouldn’t want them to miss out of their fun for a moment! Now they can torture generations of people~
With term limits of course. Idk there could be a possibility that they’d take the planet seriously though as they’d be around to see the consequences of environmental policy
Idk there could be a possibility that they’d take the planet seriously though as they’d be around to see the consequences of environmental policy
I’m more of the school of thought that “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!” and in the grim dark future of immortal oligarchs, there is only war.
I doubt it works on anything but skin cells.
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It’s not a path to living forever; cells can’t reproduce once they burn through their telemeres. What this is is a way to have a youthful body at an older age so you won’t spend the last years of your life frail and wrinkly
I’m betting any genuine anti-aging therapy is going to be a complex mess of many treatments. Top off the telomeres, error-correct the DNA, roto-rooter the arteries, reprogram cells, etc…
I doubt that will be the reality of any such breakthroughs, at least not for a long time. But I think the solution in such a scenario would have to be sterilization of everyone on earth by default. Sterilization which could be temporarily reversed to allow someone to have a child via a controlled application process just to meet the rate of replacement.
