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A good article, but if you take a look at the 7 problems that SENS "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" identifies as needing to be solved to addre
by ozborn 10y ago
A good article, but if you take a look at the 7 problems that SENS "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" identifies as needing to be solved to address ageing the telomere length issue is just one subset of single issue (cellular senescence). Furthermore they appear to have fixed this only for a single cell type - white blood cells which are easy to obtain and do gene therapy on.
Nonetheless it is still encouraging progress...
- patall 10y agoI disagree. This is not a good article, it does not state anything (what kind of genetherapy, what kind of gene, how was it administered) but wants to tell a personal story. You can not even say how they achieved longer telomeres in white blood cells. Have they transduced hematopoetic stem cells? Or just transplanted (some kind of) white blood cells, that will be gone from the body in a few months? That would not be progress.