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Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation (scitechdaily.com)
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Age Reversal Breakthrough: Harvard/MIT Discovery Could Enable Whole-Body Rejuvenation::In a pioneering study, researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Maine, and MIT have introduced a chemical method for reversing cellular aging. This revolutionary approach offers a potential alternative to gene therapy for age reversal. The findings could transform treatments for age-re

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The sci-fi type implications of this would be astounding. We would see a rapidly increasing global population with high natural resource use. On a philosophical level, is living forever a blessing or a curse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could start by giving it to congress

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Immortal, corrupt, power-mad billionaires, great idea...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't want them to miss out of their fun for a moment! Now they can torture generations of people~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With term limits of course. Idk there could be a possibility that they'd take the planet seriously though as they'd be around to see the consequences of environmental policy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Idk there could be a possibility that they’d take the planet seriously though as they’d be around to see the consequences of environmental policy

I'm more of the school of thought that "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!" and in the grim dark future of immortal oligarchs, there is only war.

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