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Edit: Thanks to whoever changed the title for the post! jfc the media telephone chain here is absurd. "Revealing a master controller of development and ageing"
by vikramkr 2y ago
Edit: Thanks to whoever changed the title for the post!
jfc the media telephone chain here is absurd. "Revealing a master controller of development and ageing" becomes "AP-1: The Master Regulator." A -> the is a pretty big jump. (https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2024/06/revealing-master-controller-of-development-and-ageing https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2024/06/revealing-master-...)
Also - ugh these content mills are so lame. The university PR departments aren't helping - why a university feels it needs to contribute to lowering public trust in science by claiming every paper is a generation defining breakthrough is beyond me. But maybe pause for a second before breathlessly passing along a headline like 'master controller of aging and development uncovered'? And the underlying research (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413124002316?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041312...) and techniques used etc is pretty interesting - please don't cut research funding to genetics a few years down the line when immortality fails to materialize like longevity.whatever promised.