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by carbocation 1252 days ago
Some say that there are issues with this and related works.

https://twitter.com/charlesmbrenner/status/16135817576344576...

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So he's saying they didn't fix aging, they just fixed some simpler damage they did themselves. But in a previous experiment, the same treatment improved aging damage to the vision of actually old mice:

> Sinclair and colleagues injected the reprogramming-factor genes into the eyes of 1-year-old healthy mice, roughly the mouse equivalent of middle-age. By this stage, the animals had visual acuity scores about 15% lower than their 5-month-old counterparts. Four weeks after treatment, older mice had similar acuity scores to younger ones.

https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-restore-...

I always see this guy antagonizing everyone (David Sinclair, Aubrey de Grey, etc.). Is he the Gary Marcus of longevity?