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Heck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effect
by erbo 12y ago
Heck, 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.