Beyond 120: are we finally getting older slower?

Started by Hamilcar, July 24, 2016, 03:58:00 AM

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Hamilcar

July 24, 2016, 03:58:00 AM
Long summary of current science stuff: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/201752/beyond-120

tl;dr: aging could be a genetic program, hacking might be possible

PDH

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July 24, 2016, 07:08:55 PM
They'll figure it out 2 weeks before I die of old age.  I be stuck there forever.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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mongers

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July 24, 2016, 07:10:59 PM
Quote from: PDH on July 24, 2016, 07:08:55 PM
They'll figure it out 2 weeks before I die of old age.  I be stuck there forever.

PeDe, you've just described this place.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

LaCroix

#3
July 24, 2016, 07:26:30 PM
gets weird at the end

OttoVonBismarck

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July 24, 2016, 09:44:55 PM
Is this the CRISPR stuff I've been hearing about

CountDeMoney

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July 24, 2016, 11:01:32 PM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on July 24, 2016, 09:44:55 PM
Is this the CRISPR stuff I've been hearing about

No, that's an entirely different Frankenstein's Creature in Pandora's Box.

Hamilcar

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July 25, 2016, 12:57:15 AM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on July 24, 2016, 09:44:55 PM
Is this the CRISPR stuff I've been hearing about

CRISPR is one possible technology that could be used in this context. The challenge with CRISPR Cas9 in adults is getting it into all your cells.
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