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Not quite. The actual article title is far more correct than either the clickbait headline or your headline: "In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks
by lvs 10y ago
Not quite. The actual article title is far more correct than either the clickbait headline or your headline:
"In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks of Progeria by Partial Reprogramming" (my addition)
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoBut that is really hard to understand for a non-specialist. Means nothing at all for me.
- lvs 10y agoWell, I'm quite sorry to hear that, but the paper was written for specialists, and its results are primarily interpretable by and relevant to specialists. Why exactly it made it into a press release and news articles is completely inexplicable when analyzed within the bounds of the work.
- ptero 10y agoA popular science, or even general news type reviews of current research are very valuable. However, in the unavoidable simplifications, they do need to keep the main findings correct, not expand into outlandish claims for clickbait
- bobchops 10y agoI think the fact that the subjects suffer from Progeria (a syndrome that causes early ageing) is significant. There are other effects of ageing (such as damage to DNA in mitochondria from oxidative stress reducing a cell's ability to generate energy) that may not be displayed early alongside other symptoms of progeria and that this treatment would not do anything to alleviate.