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First gene therapy successful against human aging

29 pointsby tsaprailisabout 9 years ago

7 comments

karmajunkieabout 9 years ago
pseudoscience at its finest. A CEO injecting herself with her company's experimental gene therapy, written up as a press release? This is a comic book plotline masquerading as marketing, not science.
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maxanderabout 9 years ago
Its definitely nice to know (pending, you know, some actual peer-reviewed analysis of this case) that telomere-lengthening treatments are possible in humans, but that's only half of a "successful therapy against human aging." What are the actual health effects? We still understand aging so poorly that no single biomarker really represents "biological age," and certainly there is no scientific consensus on what the root causes are (which may or may not include: telomere degradation, mitochondrial DNA damage, breakdown-resistant protein plaques, weaker epigenetic signalling, and the list goes on.)
mimo777about 9 years ago
She's gonna give herself the cancer.
tartuffe78about 9 years ago
People are going to get very angry if Haves vs. Have-Nots becomes Dies vs. Die-Nots.
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NinoScriptabout 9 years ago
Let's hope this actually works and is the first step toward preventing aging.
Apofisabout 9 years ago
So let's say this isn't a bunch of bullshit, what benefit does she stand to receive from having her telemeters becoming longer again?
pigpawsabout 9 years ago
Isn't this how "I Am Legend" started?