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Can somebody explain to me in layman's terms how fucked are we in terms of life extension?
Aaron King
Levi Perez
ive never been on /pol/ in my life, why are you saying that?
Jason Russell
Trained as a scientist. It's my job to be skeptical.
Who knows what happened? Maybe there is something biologically significant here but we will just have to wait until they publish the full story.
Noah Robinson
>nature.com
hopefully it does get published. Absolutely you should be skeptical, but the measurements are in, albeit from one sample, we just dont know the why. Why was telomerase active in his cells due to space flight?
but yea, cool stuff, i love twin studies
Ryan Myers
Eli Allen
i wanna live till i'm 120 with fragile bones, wrinkles, and pooping my diapers
Christian Long
Yeah, I wish I could speculate why his telomeres are longer but the article doesn't tell us much. Is it longer is cell types that already have telomerase its regulation has been altered? Is there a disruption in stem cell differentiation and a there is an influx of somatic cells with longer telomeres? What cell types were affected? Was there an error in the assay? Did all of the telomeres grow longer or some more than others? Was the telomere lengthening a result of telomerase? Were the t-loop structures altered? Was TERRA expression influenced? Did DNA damage occur? etc.
Noah Baker
OP here, thanks for the thorough answer!
David Murphy
For evolution you need competition for reproduction. In nature, things work out by competition for living, as unfit specimen die because of their unfitness.
With immortal beings you'd need to have other methods of controlling reproduction to steer for wanted traits. Dystopian scifi suggests birth control laws and reproduction for the richest, but who knows.
Christopher Cox
What about brain, I know with reading/performing mental task you can keep it "strong" when eldery but degeneration is a problem.