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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Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!

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Don’t worry we’ll live forever too since now we won’t have to retire

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Yeah, check out Altered Carbon (the first book or the first season) for how this would likely play out.

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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.

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I like how you only mentioned the first season, I didn’t watch season 2 at all…

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Anthony Mackie did great with what he had to work with. But the writing sucked.

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Avoid, though I respect Anthony Mackie for trying with that “script”. Be happy with S1 and look no further

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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.

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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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Peter Thiel and probably Donald Trump have supposedly been injecting themselves with children’s blood, or at least a derivative from their blood.

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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?) 🤷🏼‍♂️

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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 came to the thread to post that, but here it is on the top ✊

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So aging will become a sign of poverty?

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It already is

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I’m greying before 30, this feels accurate.

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Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.

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I was thinking Henry Kissinger

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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.


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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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Yet so many upvotes :/

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Nobody wants to die

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Don’t worry if they did invent this, it would never be made available to me or you

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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.

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