Fountain of Youth Discovered?!

Scientists at Harvard University believe they have found the first step towards reversing aging in humans. The test subjects were mice, which are far from humans genetically, but that didn't stop them from comparing their research to the fountain of youth.

Check out the article:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/mouse-aging-reversal/

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[layahma]

That's great news!.. for the rich.

[datzfast]

the mice do die of old age, this is something not asked or discussed. how can you not ask this question? No where do they claim they imortalized the lab rat.

[TorahEterna]

Overpopulation canard..don't even listen to such nay sayers, they have no vision or capacity to think. Problem isnt over population, but mismanagement of resources..We have enough resources to sustain present population levels, and more.

More people alive = more brains thinking, more science and technology..We can colonize the sea/seasteading, space: watch?v=EgrdAUFFMrA .

It's natural and our responsibility to keep our selves strong and healthy, forever..for as long as we are alive.

[TorahEterna]

Realize that it's in the interest of the super rich, the elites in the world for us, their market to remain alive and interested in their product. More all tech, even this, comes from gov funding..Anyone who works in science knows private industry makes very few discoveries, its gov backs science..And officially we're the gov.

It's our tax money that is funding this..So if we gett off our behinds and let the politicians know what we want, we will get it. Telomere-tech and everything else.

[Bander1]

Well if any of you read Neuromancer by William Gibson remember Julius Deane were he goes to Tokyo to have his DNA reworked. In short, they rejuvenate him to a younger age.

Probably expensive. And yes for the rich. Can't have the poor becoming immortal.

Unless of course, the Chinese manage to make it a cheaper.

[Grrrrreekman]

@WarMasterX6 The harder they can control it they less they want it. For example in a society where people can live indefinitely who'd go to war for oil and profit? Who'd kill himself for a job? Time is our greatest commodity and this is what the biotech revolution promises to give us.

[Grrrrreekman]

@layahma The rate we acquire knowledge since the Renaissance and the industrial revolution has increased exponentially. The convergence of the separate fields of technology we see today doubles our knowledge every 2 or 3 years! The great experiments at NIF and ITER (though cold fusion would be nice!), nanotechnology, the biotech revolution, will change us and our societies profoundly. So yes this is something to be optimistic.

[WarMasterX6]

@Grrrrreekman well not to sound like a conspiracy theorist...though that is exactly what it is XD maybe they dont want it as public so they can live better while we all suffer?

[layahma]

@Grrrrreekman That's pretty amazing. Wright Brothers first controlled flight to the moon landing only took less than 70 years. And yeah, nuclear fusion is where it's at. The NIF is doing some amazing stuff. I think science is the only thing that keeps me from being entirely pessimistic about where society is going.

[Grrrrreekman]

@WarMasterX6 You're right and welcome. Yes it is very interesting and very promising but for some unexplained (or some might say suspicious) reason most governments and corporations don't seem to care and funding for this research is very limited. They see more fit (or maybe profitable) to spend all funding on trying to repair degenerative damage (geriatrics in a sense) instead of finding ways to prevent it from happening.

[Grrrrreekman]

@layahma It's all a matter of priorities. The technology is already available or very close but unfortunately politicians and economists decide instead of scientists. Take J.F.K.'s plan for the moon for example, seemed impossible in the 60's but was achieved in less than a decade when NASA got the support it required. Mars could be terraformed in 100 years if we wanted. Imagine now if nuclear fusion had been our priority instead of oil. Sahara would be a garden and global warming nonexistent.