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
Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!
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.
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?) 🤷🏼♂️
Don’t worry we’ll live forever too since now we won’t have to retire
Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.
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
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The full journal article says “in vivo” not “in vitro”. They have already successfully regenerated mice which are organisms biologically similar to humans.
Edit
I was wrong about this. The journal article does only talk about results obtained “in vitro” but mentions other studies that have successfully reversed cellular ageing “in vivo”.
The ability of the Yamanaka factors to erase cellular identity raised a key question: is it possible to reverse cellular aging in vivo without causing uncontrolled cell growth and tumorigenesis? Initially, it didn’t seem so, as mice died within two days of expressing OSKM. But work by the Belmonte lab, our lab, and others have confirmed that it is possible to safely improve the function of tissues in vivo by pulsing OSKM expression [22, 23] or by continuously expressing only OSK, leaving out the oncogene c-MYC
So in this study the results were only in vitro but other studies have successfully reversed cellular ageing in vivo.
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Worry? I’m excited for it man.
They don’t realize they’re messing with a monkeys paw.
The first gen lifers are gonna live to regret their discovery.
Even if for the rich, this would be good news. The rich and powerful will stop ignoring things like distant climate related deadlines, if they think they’ll be alive to feel their effects.
No they won’t. The answer remains hard vore.
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If this take is anything like whales with stock they’ll just jump ship onto the next country/planet to start over it’s a never ending cycle
A lot of the rich/ultra wealthy are selfish and don’t give a fuck unless it directly affects them so I don’t foresee any accountability if the planet Implodes instead they’ll just fling their money at the next thing that buys them a ticket out of here
“As long as men die. Liberty will never fail.”
Ahh, immortal super-rich people whose views get more and more conservative as they age forever… What an exciting future to look forward to!
The only upside I can think of is they’d actually start caring about the planet instead of thinking they’ll be dead in 100 years anyway.
I see one potential good thing though: maybe people would be less interested in killing the only planet that supports human life if they knew they were going to be on it forever.
Without paywall: https://archive.is/QX1w7
Ugh. I barely want to live my whole life on this planet with the ways it is going… let alone reverse back into my 20s with no actual “new game+”
I would think suddenly being able to go back to your 20s is the NG+.
Heh, science journalism.
The comments be like: I didn’t read the article, here my pissed off reaction calling for 1984
Why a cure for ageing would benefit everyone and not solely the ultra wealthy
If you put aside ethical and humanitarian reasons for making a cure for ageing widely available, there is still economic considerations, i.e. if you are a government you will be presented with a choice between:
Do I pay to treat people for ageing, even though the treatment might initially be expensive, or do I let them age without intervention?
The former option might actually be significantly cheaper because people in an advanced state of ageing cost more money. They have more diseases, since many diseases are age related such as dementia, cancer and cardiac disease, and need more healthcare and also can’t work anymore.
If instead, the government pays for rejuvenation treatment they save on all the other healthcare costs and their people don’t have to stop being productive.
So perhaps in the future when a cure for ageing is actually developed it will be made available for everyone rich and poor alike
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.
Full journal article here
https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text
“Thus, rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means.”
– Journal article abstract
I wonder what people will look like in their reverse-puberty stage.
