Is anyone currently DOING anything to try and reverse aging/stop death?
Is anyone currently DOING anything to try and reverse aging/stop death?
If for some reason you don't want to share it on this forum, then message me, we should talk.
Also a blog on this topic some might find interesting:
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That article blew my mind.
Is there anyone trying (or has tried) to activate telomerase in cells to extend their telomeres?
Many of these scenarios I imagined playing out if someone were to discover time travel (I personally think it's impossible), ethicists going to the government or UN arguing that xyz power is too much for one person to have and such a power would either be banned or highly regulated, or they may keep all the power for themselves and change history in a way you wouldn't want. I am not a believer in Dr.Pangloss' (from Voltaire's Candide) best of all possible worlds philosophy, if certain things in the past happened our present could be vastly greater than today.
What if fire or writing were discovered 1,000 years earlier? We'd either be 1,000 years ahead of today (assuming a similar rate of progress, a big if but still) or events shift in a way where nuclear war wiped out humanity 1,000 years ago (remember we'd likely be 1,000 years ahead.) Religions and languages would be radically different than our timeline and so much potential is there. I'm assuming our timeline doesn't get overwritten but creates parallel timelines.
All that would be for another post entirely however but the principle is the same: many people that influence public policy would think that both time travel and immortality would be too much power for one group or person to have and seek to severely restrict it or outright ban it due to philosophical (e.g., why does one guy get to decide who "deserves" immortality or influencing the future, this restrictive mindset people want to impose on this group for far less consequential things even) and other reasons, so information on such needs to be tightly controlled by their discoverers so the government (or other groups) doesn't restrict them.
I'm typically for open communication, but let's not shoot ourselves in the foot in case someone finds something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
They used jellyfish genes in mammals before with glow in the dark pigs and cats so immortality could have potential.
So taking your own cells, making them pluripotent, and then making a serum to reintroduce them back into the body is doable. I have no idea what happens after that. Haven't read that far yet, sorry. :D
A side note, there is this phenomenon: http://www.nature.com/news/ageing-research-blood-to-blood-1.16762
I guess I could try it out and re-purpose some of those things handcuffed to the radiator in my basement...
>stop aging process
XD
As far as cancer goes, I'm researching this. I was under the impression that this was something that was commonly managed. It seems like an in vitro oncolytic virotherapy would handle all of the sick cells while the good cells escaped infection. Is this sound reasoning?