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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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?

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I doubt it works on anything but skin cells.

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We could start by giving it to congress

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

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

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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

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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

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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…

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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.

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