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Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues
- Tarrosion 12y agoThis reminds me of a PostSecret submission from several months ago: https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.jpg?w=526&h=350 https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.j...
- tannerc 12y agoYou can tell it's from a real biologist by the time they spent aligning each line of text to the background image.
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- zxcvcxz 12y agoAs if I need another reason to kill babies. Perhaps there is some truth to gaining life energy by eating your opponents heart.
- spiritplumber 12y agoYou need to pick more challenging opponents, then!
- bambax 12y agoWhat a great plot for a sci-fi/noir novel; an evil old man captures babies and infuses their blood into himself. With a variant: the babies don't just vanish, they disappear for a while, and then come back. But alas, inexplicably, once they're back they begin to age very fast. Maybe they don't disappear at all, they just start to age and that's how the inquiry starts. People notice the disease and think it's some kind of virus; but a young journalist trying to connect the dots notices all affected babies stayed at the same clinic at some point. He goes there to see for himself and is greeted by a brilliant doctor who's wise beyond his years...
- saalweachter 12y agoIf the secret to immortality is baby blood, that's one of those hilariously cliche coincidences that makes me think we're living in a poorly written universe.
- mhomde 12y agoThe inevitable "baby factory" scene in the movie is sure going to have some punch
- ianremsen 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion
- anigbrowl 12y agoWe could call it...Dracula!
- digi_owl 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
- moonshinefe 12y agoSo Elizabeth Bathory was correct after all--ha! Take that, naysayers.
- theophrastus 12y agoBathing, drinking: not-so-much. Apparently it requires direct circulatory installation (but of which sub-component??). Unfortunately for the "Blood Countess", she was limited by the technology of her times.
- agumonkey 12y agoI'm really curious how symbolic the old 'youth blood' myth were. As if they had some slight proof that it could work but did it in a cargo cult way.
- FrankenPC 12y agoI'm not ashamed to say that was my first thought when I saw the article.
- ikeboy 12y agoPlot twist: it's all a corporate hoax by the makers of the Hansel and Gretel movie.
- PublicEnemy111 12y agoWhat benefits does parabiosis have over taking HGH? The effects of parabiosis in mice sounds almost exactly like the effects of growth hormone
- nostromo 12y agoThat's what I was wondering... is it just the increased growth hormone levels in the young blood or is it the blood cells themselves? If I'm reading the article right, it was neither, but actually just the plasma: > Plasma alone had the same effects. “We didn't have to exchange the whole blood” Did they remove the growth hormones from the plasma? It doesn't say...
- digi_owl 12y agoFrom some cursory wiki reading it seems blood plasma is quite the blanket term. Electrolytes, proteins, CO2 removal, it's involved in quite a number of places.
- jzila 12y agoCarl Zimmer published a piece on this in the NYTimes almost a year ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-ho...). Here's the HN thread on that topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621
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- rsync 12y agoI am stupefied by this. Many, many times I have considered: "what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later" And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful." But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?
- dangrossman 12y agoIs there a method to store blood and have it still be viable for transfusion after that long? I know refrigerated blood only lasts a few weeks...
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- rsync 12y agoIs that true ? Whatever controlled freezing method they propose for cryogenics ... although they also propose draining all the blood out first, so ... perhaps that's not relevant ?
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- spitfire 12y agoWell, Lance Armstrong thought of it. Worked or him pretty well. Sort of.
- serf 12y agoblood doping has been a cycling past time since the 70's. Lance's novel approach was the medical write-off on drugs which were OK'd due to their use in his then ongoing cancer treatments.
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- erbo 12y agoHeck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blood. It didn't become practical, however, until they developed a way of growing new blood in vitro. I imagine that's the next thing scientists will be working on...if successful, we'll get rejuvenation quite a bit earlier than Heinlein's timeline predicted it.
- tjradcliffe 12y agoIt's likely even simpler than that. At this point it's a matter of brute force to investigate the different factors in young vs old blood, isolate the ones that have the rejuvenating effects, and synthesize away, likely via programming bacteria to produce them. They have already identified one candidate--GDF11--and there will likely be others. So it may be a matter of injecting yourself with a mix of appropriate synthetics every day or two.
- zach 12y agoThe future of Silicon Valley: "This internship really sucks. Just when I think there's nothing left they can ask of me..."
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y agoSee, hipster bros are good for something after all.
- Terr_ 12y agoI transfused this blood before it was cool...
- zach 12y agoUgh, the comments for this article are a disaster. I was trying to start a conversation in a creative way, my apologies.
- pinder 12y agoMr. Burns was right.
- Eric_WVGG 12y agoElizabeth Bathory was right first — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory
- mattmurdog 12y agoExactly what I was thinking.
- gcdgcd 12y agoThe leaders of the Chinese communist party have already found this long time ago. As I known the old leaders of the chinese communist party change their blood of PLA periodical to keep them health. one article could find here: http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395 http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395 (in Chinese)
- EGreg 12y agoIt looks like hieroglyphs to me.
- kbenson 12y agoHere's google's translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395&prev=search http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http:.... Surprisingly readable after you get few paragraphs in and start picking up on the common mistranslated words (Some other title for Mao is being translated as "hair").
- maaku 12y agoMao means hair. That is his name.
- kbenson 12y agoInteresting, it's able to infer that Mao is a name about half the time. (I still consider it a mistranslation, as it's a name. I wouldn't expect John Smith to translate to another language with "Smith" being replaced bu the equivalent in the other language either).
- chc 12y agoBut in English we capitalize names and put articles before common nouns, whereas in Chinese both are just "mao." It is a mistranslation, but a more understandable one than translating "John Smith" as "John a metal-worker".
- rrodriguez89 12y agoThank God i have the sister younger than me that love me very much :D
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- sizzzzlerz 12y agoThe secret of Dick Cheney, the Dark Lord, Himself, has been revealed! For decades, He has been kept alive by the blood of the young, and, until now, only His doctors knew the truth. Expect His vengence to be swift and severe!
- Mz 12y agoYou don't need a transfusion to do this. You just need to work on your blood health. Excerpt: “I thought, 'Hey wait, they're sharing blood,'” says Michael. “'This could answer that question we've been asking for years.'” At the end of the presentation, he ran up to Irina and Rando. He had not even finished his pitch before Rando said: “Let's do it.” It was when I read up on how the body reacts to high altitude that I had my aha! moment that the blood was the common denominator between the gut and lung issues in people with CF. When you go up in altitude, you pee more. Well before you see altitude sickness, the body starts dumping wastes via the kidneys that it can't breathe out due to thin air.
- martin1975 12y agoFor a second there, I thought the headline was a promo for "CougarLife.com"
- JoachimS 12y agoAm I the only one wondering what happens to the poor young mouse when it gets the old blood?
- kevbin 12y agoStarts talking about the good old days, complains about the noise teenager mice call music these days, nods off for a while then heads over to Luby's for an early dinner.
- psadri 12y agoDracula?
- adekok 12y agoDidn't Heinlein predict this in the 70s?
- chckn 12y agoIn which novel?
- swayvil 12y agoTo state the obvious : Aging billionaire keeps a dozen healthy athletic vegetarian teenagers on hand for weekly blood transfusions. No joke. It's happening right now. So is this a bad thing?