‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Scientists halt ageing in mice by purging old cells
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2057113/Ive-seen-like-Purging-old-cells-stops-aging-mice.html
One of the reasons I initially studied biochemistry was to be able to understand how longevity works. As I learned more about the details I decided I didn’t have the attention span to do the research myself, but I also developed the idea that there was a really good chance that in my lifetime (presuming, naturally, I don’t get run over by a truck or something) there would be longevity treatments at least good enough to get me to the next discoveries and so on and so on. This article clearly is about not ready for prime time research, but this work and others like it show that we are probably only a few decades away from the first tentative approaches (I have no interest in being the first, nor even the 50th, I would like to wait (if I have the opportunity) for the bugs to be worked out). Since I have reasonable expectations of more than another 30 years (40-50 with a bit of luck and efforts to stay healthy on my part) I think I will be able to get the treatments. I have lots of things I want to work on and I am not sure the genetically allotted time I have is going to be enough (particularly at this ridiculously glacial pace that I am engaged in), plus I have always wanted to live forever (not, btw, with my scuzzy body, but with something I have been designing in my mind for more than 30 years).
As a btw, I wrote up a little bit that is apropos:
Why We Die Or A Short Course On Evolution
