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by KellyCriterion 7 days ago
- (ie. regrowing telomeres) -

Was there any progress at all so far?

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We found telomerase and tried a bunch of things with it. We can reset the "clock", or DNA being DNA, at least one of the clocks in cells, at will.

Which mostly causes aggressive cancers.

Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer.

You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Immortality has quite a history to it!

Is there any option on the horizon somewhen in the future to solve this cancer issues?

Like "in theory there is a valid option but we lack X or Y so far to do it properly"?