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by TedDoesntTalk 1252 days ago
> loss of epigenetic information is a reversible cause of aging

Ok, so how do we reverse the loss of epigenetic information?

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They use three of the four "Yamanaka factors," which are substances that, in combination, turn adult cells back into stem cells.
Yamanaka factors seem to be a reinit mechanism, however that's not enough.

Cell differentiation seems to be similar to Conway's Game of Life where cells differentiate based on neighboring cells. Significant ordered complexity can emerge from simple rules. Now if you go and reset random cells, often it is either a no-op or they pick up the correct state from neighbors, but if you keep doing it, you eventually reset an important cell and break the functionality.

In biology, it likely looks a little more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-97RhAZhXI

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
Multivac has got its work cut out for it.