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by CyanLite4 1247 days ago
First time, eh? These articles appear twice a week on here.

We’ve made cured nearly all diseases in mice, including baldness, Covid, cancers, heart disease, and now have made them reverse aging and practically immortal.

Very few of those treatments have worked in humans and even fewer have made it into commercial viability.

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I’ve been looking at these headlines for 13 years with science literacy. I’ve become jaded as well. But this is the real deal. The idea that epigenetic model of aging is different in mice than any other mammal is so off base that it’s not even worth considering. This is nothing like those experiments that show apricots reduce cancer by 2% in mice — highly subject to mouse physiology with negligible results. Whatever animal they apply this cleaving to will display the same results, namely accelerated aging by every metric… this is massive and groundbreaking. Anyone who has any biochemistry literacy should know that
> Whatever animal they apply this cleaving to will display the same results

That’s the kicker isn’t it. “will”, not “does”. As someone who is not in the field it’s hard for me to get excited before you can at least say they’ve reproduced it with another species

It will. There’s no ambiguity about it. The only ambiguity is whether the effect is responsible for all aging symptoms or just most of them.