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by spwa4 2 days ago
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.

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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"?