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HDSpiele t1_iwurqg0 wrote

Reply to comment by Electrical-Bed8577 in Vaccine doubles brain tumour survival rate in medical breakthrough by tonymmorley

No not realy we know what causes aging we can artifical age rats and restore sight loss from agin in rats. Aging happens through the continued destruction and reconstruction of the epigenome. There is a lot to it but basicly it dictates what cell is wich. The epigenome fragments more and more the more it gets reconstructed and by braking it artifical over and over again scientists where able to artifical age a rat. We know that if that process is reversed the cell reverses it's age by apling 3 of the 4 methods of turning a cell back into a stem cell. This was tested by apling this method to the retina of a rat that had previously gone blind from old age.

So what keeps us back? The methods of Appling cell therapy ofcourse it is compleatly absurd to try and apply cell therapy like that to each cell in a human body. So what we need to figure out is does this work in humans and how to apply it faster and to more cells. I honestly do not what to die of old age if we are this close to curing aging.

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Electrical-Bed8577 t1_iwusmrt wrote

Ahhh Rats. Errata. We just start to get smart at 60-80. We'd have a better society if we lives healthier for longer.

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supified t1_iww8v2n wrote

You're really overly optimistic. Short answer. We cannot cure aging. Even if we could, we cannot cure these diseases yet either. Imagine the richest person alive, what they wouldn't do to live longer (not even forever just longer) and yet, rich people die just like everyone else. There are efforts being made to cure diseases and aging, but they're not there yet. Also curing aging would not cure someone with cancer, it might lower prevalence if we kept everyone at a young enough age, but cancer even strikes children, so curing aging doesn't equal curing cancer.

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HDSpiele t1_iwwbhrw wrote

That is true but one of the biggest risk factors for cancer is age so if we can reverse the biological clock cancer would become very very rare. Also from what I read is that futurologists believe (no idea what that is I asume some kind of scientist) that we might be able to make an affordable cure for aging by 2050.

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