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Scientists have partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, an achievement that suggests a new approach for tackling similar disorders in people.
"These mice were equivalent to 80-year-old humans and were about to pass away," says Ronald DePinho, co-author of the paper and a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. After the experiment, "they were the physiological equivalent of young adults."
Originally posted by platipus
at this point we'd probably need to find more planets to colonize in.
hooray for un-aging humans all over the universe!
Originally posted by UmbraSumus
Originally posted by platipus
at this point we'd probably need to find more planets to colonize in.
hooray for un-aging humans all over the universe!
The only ones who should have this potential treatment should be those going off-world. They would need it .
Originally posted by SaturnFX
one minor issue.
What happens when top management doesn't retire at 62, but instead, keeps their jobs for a few hundred years...
progression up the corporate chain will be one of the few valid concerns in a capitalist society.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Originally posted by SaturnFX
one minor issue.
What happens when top management doesn't retire at 62, but instead, keeps their jobs for a few hundred years...
progression up the corporate chain will be one of the few valid concerns in a capitalist society.
That and the little thing called resource depletion. Just another minor blip in your utopia.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by SaturnFX
Well, when I say resource depletion, I mean it like how people speak about "peak oil". What I mean is that demand outstrips supplies to such a degree that the resource can no longer be carried traded and transported in the global market. This would include most resources sometime this century. Specifics? Let's just go with clean water, oil, & arable land for the moment.