Age Reversal Breakthrough: Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation(scitechdaily.com)
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Age Reversal Breakthrough: Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation
https://scitechdaily.com/age-reversal-breakthrough-harvard-mit-discovery-could-enable-whole-body-rejuvenation/
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Why isn't this topic getting more attention? It is as if people just don't believe in this. To good to be true?
The topic gets a lot of attention, this is not the first time sentences such as:
I wholeheartedly agree that it suggests the potential to lead somewhere.
“Until recently, the best we could do was slow aging. New discoveries suggest we can now reverse it,”
“This new discovery offers the potential to reverse aging with a single pill, with applications ranging from improving eyesight to effectively treating numerous age-related diseases,”
I wholeheartedly agree that it suggests the potential to lead somewhere.
Wasn't one of the main issues that when doing any age reversal you add massive cancer risks?
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From the article: "This breakthrough, which earned a Nobel Prize, prompted scientists to question if cellular aging could be reversed without pushing cells to become too young and potentially cancerous."
It may have already been solved with _partial_ epigenetic reprogramming with Yamanaka or related factors, where _partial_ means not pushing cells all the way back to embryonic/cancerous state and maintaining their differentiation.
The main risk I heard about is tissues with rapid cell turnover, but some startups are working on it.