A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for a future drug that could repair joints instead of replacing them.
Good. Biological aging is nothing more than a series of processes, not an inherent property of atoms, and it’s time we start getting serious about anti-aging and life extension.
But probably not, seeing what the world is like.
Only the rich will benefit.
… for the first 20 years
Is it though? The only time progress happens is when people die.
People have been seeking life extension for all of recorded history.
Its mostly billionaires who will be able to benefit from life extension… do you really want a world where trump, musk, and all their silicon valley friends rule the world until they turn 300 years old?
No worries about that, there is no changing the maximum age seemingly, not unless you genetically engineered babies with tech we don’t have yet.
Everyone is born with stem cells that carry so many copies of cells that are preprogrammed to die after a point to then be replaced by those stem cells. No drug can make more copies after the fact.
Then of course the dna gets denatured just by radiation and pollution and time.
Neither of these will or can be solved after someone is born. They can extend the average lifespan of a group, but they can’t exceed the maximum, which has remained constant throughout human history even as the average has changed drastically.
What’s the maximum? About 120?
Imagine having 100 or more healthy years. That seems like sci-fi, but may be possible one day still.
It will also mean working until you’re 100 before the national pension kicks in unfortunately lol
Luckily there’s no vaccine against guillotines.
Give it time.
Aroooooo
Billionaires, and everybody living outside the US
So essentially Altered Carbon?
I think that’s more kinda digitised, transferable consciousness. I’d take it tho.
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Why do you think that? We already benefit from life extension. And why only 300?
“I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I’d settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.”
CEO Nwabudike Morgan, “Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri” (1999)
If you’re that worried, start working towards killing them. Seems like it’s going to be necessary step either way to correct many problems in the world. What’s one more reason for the pyre?
How about not life extension but quality of life extension instead (e.g. this post)
Indeed, I don’t really feel like living for more more than 90 years, I just want to be able to do what I like to do until I die.
I didn’t realize people weren’t being serious about it this whole time. The tens of millions of dollars of research grants seemed pretty serious.
LOL that pays for a focus group for branding. You can’t be serious.
You’re telling me you’re a “huge nerd,” but think medical research is done by companies and involves focus groups? Like, it’s a Marvel or something?
Jfc. If 90 million dollars isn’t anything to you, howbout you give yours away then bud.
Yes, medicine is marketed. Are you for real? Like, is there still amniotic fluid behind your ears? Great Hatching Day fellow creature! Welcome to Earth!
My joke was that tens of millions of dollars to research aging barely covers the test tubes. JFC.
Bud, they don’t market for a treatment before there’s even research conducted. How the fuck are you acting like you think giant research grants are not effort? Give me ten million dollars if it isn’t much then.