Published today, by the Salk institute in California, this paper shows that forced expression IN VIVO of the Yamanaka factors (OSKM) in order to induce pluripotency in differentiated cells in mice results in the amelioration of phenotypic aging symptoms i.e. mice tissues get healthier, as if they were younger, WITHOUT INCREASED RISK OF CANCER.
This confirms that epigenetic marks on the genome play a central role in aging and paves the way for more research into how mammalian aging itself works. This could be very useful research that could allow for clinical tests in humans in a few years from now.
Thought Veeky Forums would like to know, what with all the recent immortality craze. PLEB VERSION: scientists discovered and outlined a protocol to "reverse" aging in mice tissue. Yes, this could show us the way on how to reverse aging in human tissues using the suitable pharmaceuticals, some years from now. Simplified article: salk.edu/news-release/turning-back-time-salk-scientists-reverse-signs-aging/
>you were born too late to receive the sweet embrace of death
Luis Gonzalez
Reversing aging is stupid. We already live abnormally long lives. Old humans die so that new humans can take their place and progress can be made.
Wyatt Brooks
>Reversing aging is stupid. I beg to differ.
Jace Evans
holy shit I might actually never die.
ok next thread.
Lucas Young
>history is linear meme
+18
Ethan Scott
I'd say it's doable. We'd need to put a shit ton of funding into benefiting the good of man than personal gain and profit. That is assuming that this type of technology won't just be hoarded by the elite. We'd need to get off mother earth and stuff like that.
Jaxon Moore
>tfw fapping to mai waifu for all eternity
Xavier Barnes
Nobody will make you take it. >If can't live forever nobody can
Ian Reed
Are you trying to say that stem cells aren't just nuclear fusion redux?
Felt like it's always been 10-20 years away.
Caleb Gomez
This
Joseph Sanchez
How are we going to deal with overpopulation if immortality actually becomes accessible?
Adam Jackson
By making it expensive enough so only the elites can afford it.
James Morris
The owner of their university are going to become filthy rich
Juan Kelly
>tfw the magician died too soon
Mason Taylor
No, here is what we do. If you decide to take it, and you and up having kids while you are taking it, than you must be put to death. You can only have kids if you aren't immortal, and if you have kids, then you can't be immortal. I can't think of a better solution, there would be no overpopulation if this happened.
Ryder Gomez
Some horrible stuff would happen
Ayden Wilson
>chop of penis >grow old and die pick one, ill go for second
Lincoln Jones
by doing what this guy said
Jackson Long
If we administered such a treatment to every fetus from this point on, what effect would this have on humanity? The existence of people born too late to receive this treatment alongside a generation of maturing children who have had it would be quite an interesting scenario for humanity to get through.
Jason Bennett
But then the dumb but rich get immortality and the ones that further our race dont
Cameron Martin
I want immortalityfags to leave.
This will never happen you fucking brainlets.
Adrian Wilson
I want niggers like you to leave.
Samuel Garcia
We """accidentally""" nuke Africa, India and China. (some 4 billion people in total)
Bam. Done it. Now we have bought ourselves enough time to develop the space industry and colonize other planets.
Samuel Gomez
Excluding immigration the birth rate in Western countries is low. In Japan it is at 1.4. And you need 2.1 to maintain equilibrium.
There will always be accidents. With immortality people will undertake decade long journeys to other planets and long term tasks that bring risks.
In other words the problem does not exist.
Brayden Russell
Basically: As soon as we can make waifus and husbandos real with immortality. Game set and match. The future looks bright.
Samuel Evans
I'm sure all the nootrop fags are already self prescribing themselves with this shit.
Levi Miller
As much as I love life and as much as I'd like to see just how far humanity can go, I feel like death would eventually call for me. I love ya guys, but I just need to know what's beyond.
Chase Sullivan
Does this mean we can end the cycle of each generation trying to fuck over the youngest generation as much as possible? Will old people finally start giving a fuck about the environment and world if they don't believe they'll be dead in 15 years? Thank god! Finally we can start making some progress.
Easton Martinez
DING DING DING
James Nguyen
Basically yes.
What if you can find the answers beyond while alive? Its best to try to do that, then if you never find it, do death.
Blake Diaz
>dumb but rich kek
Jaxon Walker
Okay Veeky Forums you got your immortality. What is the next step in your master plan?
Liam Ramirez
Nonresponsive.
It has nothing to do with linearity. I'm talking about change. Society would stagnate if no one died and there was no room for new individuals.
That doesn't respond to the point.
>>Smoking is stupid because it causes lung cancer >No one's forcing you to smoke
Lucas Price
Crashing this civilization with no survivors.
Dylan Thompson
>if you smoke, you could have lung cancer and die, that's bad >if you take that therapy, you will live longer and healthier, it's equally as bad
you better explain why it is as stupid.as smoking you edgelord
Parker Rivera
Becoming little girl Maybe checking old ass magic books to see if they work
Blake Russell
Understanding turbulent flow
Lucas Jenkins
I dunno user. Immortal doesn't mean indestructible.
Easton Howard
>Society would stagnate if no one died. Give me one living example of this happening in reality with humans.
Pro Tip: You can't. So shut the fuck up with your made beliefs and come back with real fucking evidence.
Jordan Bailey
Wow, it's like you don't understand how an analogy works. And I already did explain why it's bad, you just ignored it.
Alexander Fisher
>Give me one living example of this happening in reality with humans. An example of a society where no one dies? Are you fucking retarded? Yes, yes you are.
Levi Powell
There has never been a society that stagnated either. Are you fucking retarded? Yes, yes you are.
Change always happens.
John Campbell
>There has never been a society that stagnated either. Ahaha, are you serious?
There is difference between a societal collapse and the stagnation of a society.
You do know that? The collapse of a society is hte complete failure of the state/group to continue its existence.
The stagnation of a society is the continued governance of a society while keeping its important features going and doesn't result in a failure or collapse.
Are you serious? How retarded are you?
Chase Nguyen
I will admit though. The stagnation of a society can lead to its collapse, but they are not the same fucking thing.
Jason Scott
>There is difference between a societal collapse and the stagnation of a society. Yeah, but I never said there wasn't. Stagnation is one form of societal collapse. Moron.
>The stagnation of a society is the continued governance of a society while keeping its important features going and doesn't result in a failure or collapse. Wow, did you really just try to win the argument by making up a retarded definition of stagnation out of thin air? What you described has nothing to do with stagnation, and would equally describe a period of progress. Stagnation is negative, it's the slow death of a society from failure to reform and adapt. A prominent example of such a society is the Soviet Union, which became a gerontocracy during its stagnation.
Connor Clark
And the replacement rate in developed countries is below zero.
Alexander Gray
Well, we still need to breed replacement levels since biological immortality is not invulnerability.
One/Two child rule would just be enacted in the US/Western world.
Anybody else also super nervous by these types of breakthroughs? I'm poor and the closer we seem to get to this, the more I think I'm just going to miss out while my asshole grade-school richfag bullies live for all eternity.
Leo Howard
> One/Two child rule would just be enacted in the US/Western world. China couldn't enforce a 1 child rule. How are Western nations going to do it?
Gavin Martinez
Birth rates are already that low in white populations in the West anyway. It's just cracking down on minorities and the occasional Mormon.
Xavier Morales
>wanting to live forever What's the point??
Colton Sullivan
Well user here is the thing. The person who is capable of marketing biological immortality to normal-decent people will become highly influential in status and extremely wealthy.
Not too mention as time goes on the price of things will cheaper.
Richfags won't bully you about immortality if you can buy it. They can still bully you about having better healthcare services though.
>Wanting to die What's the point??
Jacob Carter
> It's just cracking down on minorities and the occasional Mormon. White cops taking and euthanizing black babies so rich white folk can live forever.
Yeah, I can see that going over really well.
Jack Taylor
>keep a couple milliard people with various genotypes that are better at something than the rest >kill the rest >let them breed another couple milliard and wait till the new generation can compete >repeat
Parker Turner
Destroy all evidence of current civilization, leaving only few groups of people with wiped memory behind on Earth, and sail to the stars with our starships.
And thus the cycle begins anew.
Ryder Roberts
hopefully, people will get bored and do risky shit and get themselves killed
Oliver Jenkins
by making it a 2 child rule instead and not oppressing people in other ways like China did
Robert Brown
That's all fine and dandy, fleshbag, but the age of the machines is coming and you will all be gone by the next century anyway.
Jack Sullivan
I'm sure this won't give full immortality if you get brain cancer and don't catch it early enough there's pretty much nothing that can be done, even with stem cells, because if you replaced those cells you wouldn't be yourself any more the same thing applies to cancer that's taken root in too many organs (although there have been some striking multi-organ transplants that left people momentarily looking like a gutted turkey) I don't think this would cure AIDS or Ebola etc.
James Richardson
more porn
Ian Hughes
Yea well that's like, your opinion, man.
Christopher Edwards
Awesome for those who want to live.
Jordan Russell
When people talk about immortality they just mean life extension through negligible senescence, as in preventing aging, not immunity to all disease or anything like that.
Dominic Long
You guys just made /thread.
I will never understand why people would be against living longer? What is the point of a medicine or even a hospital if you don't want to live longer?