>The researchers found that a compound known as NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which is naturally present in every cell of our body, has a key role as a regulator in protein-to-protein interactions that control DNA repair. In an experiment, they found that treating mice with a NAD+ precursor called NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) improved their cells’ ability to repair DNA damage. >“The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice, after just one week of treatment,” said senior author Sinclair. >Human trials of NMN therapy will begin within the next few months to “see if these results translate to people,” he said. A safe and effective anti-aging drug is “perhaps only three to five years away from being on the market if the trials go well.” >The researchers say that in addition to reversing aging, the DNA-repair research has attracted the attention of NASA. The treatment could help deal with radiation damage to astronauts in its Mars mission, which could cause muscle weakness, memory loss, and other symptoms
>Born in time to become biologically immortal. Now only if we can make Cat Girls or Anime waifus real will this be the best universe.
Austin Edwards
If it was that easy, every organism would already do this for itself naturally. There are horrible side effects that haven't been observed yet.
Mason Moore
Evolution doesn't intelligently select. There already are biologically immortal species on Earth, just not all of them.
Adrian Jones
Look at who's never studied biology
Nicholas Allen
Isn't the problem with aging that our cells can only split a certain number of time before they die?
Adam Cooper
Yeah one of the few problems. I hope Aubrey de Grey isn't' hyping me up on false hopes.
Ayden Green
There is nothing to support that idea. Tons of people die because theirs cells split TOO many times.
Carson Carter
fpbp
Jose Sanchez
The more a cell divides, the likelier something goes wrong and you get something like cancer. So they're designed to stop replicating after a certain time and self destruct.
Nathaniel Sullivan
it's called telomere shortening. the rest of these morons have 0 clue what they're talking about
Carter Morris
Was it really this simple? I thought there must had been like 80 books worth of math equations to stop people from aging.
Jeremiah Perry
Easily addressed with telomerase.
Ethan Morgan
Preventing a cell from dying is very possible. But the main problem is that these same cells will keep on replicating without restraint, eventually becoming cancer cells and tumors. The issue was never about keeping cells alive, but more about how to deal with cells eventually becoming tumors.
T. Bio major student
Jace Wright
this and this /thread
Nathaniel Sanchez
Why is it so difficult to clone fresh cells? Do we just have no way to tell whether or not a particular stem cell is less fucked than any other stem cell, for the purpose of isolating and growing fresh blood or something?
Benjamin Walker
>Human trials of NMN therapy will begin within the next few months BULLSHIT Nothing ever goes from mice to human trials in less than a decade
Easton Butler
neat
Liam Clark
It's actually counterproductive for a species to be immune to death by aging.
Aiden Bennett
nice i can't see how this would help humanity. it will over populate earth even further
Hudson Jenkins
>over populate You have to be 18 to use this site.
Why on earth would they, individuals don't matter in terms of life - it's part of a ever mutating genetic stream. Having to compete with older generations of yourself is counter-productive.
Eli Edwards
Yes but the immortals will be extraordinarily intelligent and skilled, we will stop seeing children in the same way at all because they would become contemporaries. So birth rates would probably drop.
Especially when immortality allows us to shed off morality and just carpet bomb africa and the middle east once and for all. We can probably use CRISPR to just build a human bomber race who can sweat out sarin gas as they fly over.
Mason Phillips
Why does this feel fake? Is it because it sounds too good to be true and if it was real this is what everyone would be talking about? Is it because we've seemn too much fake science news?
Hunter Peterson
There are too many problems still so it will take more time. Meanwhile all the shit happening in world is pushing it further away from politics, economy, culture, ethics. And finally even if we got there in our lifetime we will be too old, we dont have enough time to get there. Only elites will have it anyway. The eternal jew will reign forever.
Christopher Gonzalez
Because anything not showing promise in phase 3 human trials is just garbage. Mouse trials are quite literally nonsense, if we so wanted we could make immortal, disease free, intelligent mice right now thanks to the amount of experimentation on them.
Then phase 1 human trials are always such small numbers, poorly controlled and result skewed to create buzz and funding. They usually then cheap out on the phase 2 and run with the cash.
