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Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation (scitechdaily.com)
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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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt it works on anything but skin cells.

[–] AB7ORH7D 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could start by giving it to congress

[–] InverseParallax 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Immortal, corrupt, power-mad billionaires, great idea...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't want them to miss out of their fun for a moment! Now they can torture generations of people~

[–] AB7ORH7D 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] meldroc 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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...

[–] Stovetop 1 points 1 year ago

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.