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Death is a medical problem, terminal disease really. Stopping aging stops death.
by delfinom 2y ago
Death is a medical problem, terminal disease really. Stopping aging stops death.
- moffkalast 2y agoWe can give a lab mouse any form of cancer and cure it. We can reverse their aging symptoms... yet we've only been able to extend their lifespan by a measly third at best. It's safe to say we're very far away from getting anywhere close to solving aging in humans if we can't even make an immortal mouse despite a century of throwing every possible thing at them without holding back.
- AlexErrant 2y agoI agree, but the pedant in me wants to point out that > despite a century of throwing every possible thing at them without holding back is incorrect. IACUCs exist for a reason. We do hold back.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoAlso, a century? What did we have a century ago? MRI was only invented in 1977, first commercial CT scanner came out in 1970’s, same for ultrasound. Before 1970’s we didn’t have antiviral drugs or DNA sequencing Medicine a hundred years ago was brutal and medieval
- moffkalast 2y agoBelieve it or not, lab mice have been used for medical research for over 150 years. We're all high and mighty with our moderns scanners, yet we still do surgery with chisels and hammers, drill teeth, put broken bones in plaster, have sick people congregate all in one place so they get infected with each other's diseases plus get some antibiotic resistant bacteria or two on top. And well, whatever the hell they do in the ER. Medicine is still pretty brutal when it comes down to it.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoThat may be so, but it's absolutely fundamental to know where to cut, and to cut in the right place. How are you going to diagnose cancer at an early stage if you have no way to scan and detect anything? Exploratory surgery?
- starfezzy 2y agoI think the point was that the opposite would be true if it weren't for it government intervention.