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- (ie. regrowing telomeres) - Was there any progress at all so far?

• spwa4 4mo ago
  We found telomerase and tried a bunch of things with it. We can reset the "clock", or DNA being DNA, at least one of the clocks in cells, at will. Which mostly causes aggressive cancers.
  • api 4mo ago
    Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer. You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.
    • informantics 4mo ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks Immortality has quite a history to it!
  • KellyCriterion 4mo ago
    Is there any option on the horizon somewhen in the future to solve this cancer issues? Like "in theory there is a valid option but we lack X or Y so far to do it properly"?