how to look at your own telomeres
If you took your own blood sample ( yes im qualified to do so) can you see your own telomeres under a microscope? and how expensive a microscope would you need to see your own telomeres? thank you
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What device do they use to get that close, to take pictures?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions by the way :-)
That wont do DNA in the way i believe you are looking for.
Are you looking for telemares or the other stuff you mentioned?
However that only works because what you're seeing is thousands of copies of dna stuck together. It's a weird quirk of their biology that they form like that. You MAY be able to see telomeres but you won't get an accurate measurement of them and this only works in a fruit fly larva. Would be useless for humans. In humans the best you can see is some vague squigally bits if you stain the DNA but you can't see it in nearly enough detail to take any precise measurements. To do any sort of work with DNA you need access to a lot of stuff and if you're planning on working with anything other than fairly common and innocuous bacteria you'll need some very expensive kit to keep your cells alive.
TL:DR, DNA is technically visible but not in any useful way, working with this stuff is expensive and a microscope won't grant you immortality.
You began by saying you are qualified to work with blood samples. But you aren't a phlebotemist. I won't push this point but the statement gives away your age.
Asking about the right microscope actually says you are unfamiliar with comparitive scale. Like.. what's bigger? A cell nucleus or an enzyme? Once again, whether I'm right or wrong isn't important but you are jumping ahead. It's like asking the right screwdriver for building a Cray supercomputer. Sure you may need a screwdriver but if you are asking this.. You probably aren't going to be building one.
From here I'll jump to my point..I think Chironex does believe an individual could do something like this. Of all the people in the community he's one of the likeliest to accomplish it. I don't think he thinks YOU can. I'm not trying to speak for him or anything. This is something I believe though. But that doesnt mean you can't become the person that does it. You just have a bit more learning you need before worrying about microscopes.
Now this isn't meant to discourage you. There are plenty of projects which I think you could do that are beneficial, but perhaps you need to start at a lower level of complexity and work up before jumping to curing aging.
There are a lot of specifics I could get into about how to extend life but whole courses can and should be made on the topic and it's more than I should put in a single post.
As to the contents of a lab, to do the sort of things that would be required to do any serious life extension work, the list is extensive and would run a tab in the hundreds of thousands easily. You need everything to work with cells which is a massive list on it's own, full chemistry gear and a very wide range of chemicals and reagents, some of which get very expensive on their own. You'd need a full workshop to build the machines needed to control the nanites. You'd need and AFM (atomic force microscope) and a TEM (transmission electron microscope) (the first costs a minimum of 10000, the later costs a minimum of 250,000 (usually way more)). You'll need DNA synthesizing equipment, and sequencing equipment, although you could send out for a lot of this, the amount you'd need to make would almost justify just buying the damn machine. I could go on but at this point I think I've made my point. My lab is the beginnings of all of that. I've got some basic machine and tooling, a lot of chemistry equipment and then a host of stuff I've spent years building myself.
Or insanely jealous/envious like Salieri in the film Amadeus. Have you ever seen it? Read the review by Roger Ebert if you haven't, the review itself tells the story of what we all of struggle with..a bit of envy and jealousy. I mean there has to be someone you look up to and wish you were as great as , perhaps Dr. Aubrey de Grey ? Who is your hero in the field of radical life extension?
Anyway instead of the music just replace the word with immortality in the Amadeus review( I think immortality is possible until proven otherwise. That is not dead which can eternal lie, and yet with strange aeons even death may die. -Lovecraft ) I just hope you are not like that orofessor tyat killed himseld recently because his published paper had some mistakes in it. i especially you root for whever cures desth, i know i will and i hope you do soon. to me tyat will be tge most impoetant day in all of histort...achieving immortality !!!hurrah!!!