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From what I can tell as a complete layman, the title is quite sensationalist: the only process being reversed is telomere lengthening, which has a tenuous relat
by tisu32 6y ago
From what I can tell as a complete layman, the title is quite sensationalist: the only process being reversed is telomere lengthening, which has a tenuous relationship with aging at best.
- pmdulaney 6y agoYes, if researchers had really reversed human ageing, do you really think yahoo.com would be breaking the news?
- lern_too_spel 6y agoI don't see what relevance that has to this story. Yahoo.com isn't breaking the news, only reporting about an article published in a journal.
- pmdulaney 6y agoYeah, you're right. I realized it was a dumb comment after I posted it...
- ksaj 6y agoI've actually studied this, and I agree with you. I see a notable difference between "less disease of a very specific sort" and "reversed aging" although the end result is remarkably similar (without the age digression, of course). The article treats them as the same. Unless your sole definition of aging is in re how far down the chain your telomerase shows up. To me, reversing aging would be more like the Benjamin Button story. But that's not the story being told here. Depending on how you are looking at it, they're either very similar things, or completely different things. I see them as being very different.