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I ran into Liz Parrish at a longevity convention last year and she looked pretty damned good for being 2 years into CRISPRing herself. I cannot begin to fathom
by narrator 8y ago
I ran into Liz Parrish at a longevity convention last year and she looked pretty damned good for being 2 years into CRISPRing herself. I cannot begin to fathom how wildly disruptive widespread modification of somatic cells would be to medicine and the drug industry. They'll just have to do it in China first I guess.
- baxtr 8y agoYou should probably read this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560943
- narrator 8y agoEven if she lived to 150, a skeptic would just say it's a fluke and we have to wait 110 years for a large cohort double blind placebo controlled multi-center study of 40 year olds to finish at $800,000 a procedure before we can say that the intervention worked. It wouldn't get past the IRB either. Longevity science, even if it works, will be impossible to prove to skeptics for purely practical reasons.