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by anigbrowl 898 days ago
Effective advocacy begins with letting go of the assumption that everyone already knows about the things you know about. I'm sure this person is well known within the bioscience community, but this is the first time I'd heard of him or his model.

https://www.nad.com/news/harvard-professor-david-sinclairs-i...

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> This technique also extended the lifespan of mice with a premature aging condition by about 40%.

Why is it always like this? Even "in mice" I think they always start with an animal that has been genetically modified to age faster or show some trait of aging and then cure that, as opposed to taking a normal healthy mouse and extending its age by 40%, no?

> Why is it always like this?

Because it is an easy way to write a paper?

Even with the genetic line, same chow and environment, it's possible to have mice that are ill in one location and healthy in another.

https://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/gut-microbes-dif...