 All right, so a little bit of good news, at least from my perspective. I've seen stories about this, and I've seen this guy's books being advertised. I think I bought it. I haven't read it yet, but I've bought the book. And then is this idea that we now have the technology to at least make mice be younger, that is at least certain organs within the mouse. So the scientist by the name of Sinclair at Harvard says we now we know that when we reverse the age of an organ like the brain in a mouse, the disease of aging then go away, that is disease of aging related to the brain. Memory comes back, there is no more dementia. If you do that in muscles, muscle capabilities. So the way he frames it, aging, is the fundamental disease, the underlying disease that really facilitates or makes possible all other diseases. The cancer is a disease of aging. The dementia is a disease of aging. Many, you know, heart disease is a disease of aging. These are not diseases suffered by the young. These are diseases that as our cells, as our bodies age, they become susceptible to. If we can reverse the process of aging, if we can revitalize the cells in the various parts of the body, we can get rid of disease. And we could get rid of the things that kill us. So in his lab, we had two mice. One mouse is the same age, you know, in terms of the clock, I guess. But one mouse is the picture of youth and one mouse is gray and feeble. The brother and sister, they're born in the same litter, so they're twins in a sense. And the only difference is that ones, genes, were altered to age faster. So they age faster. Now the argument he makes is if you can alter the genes to make them go faster, to age faster, why can't you alter them to age slower? But more than that. In 2007, a Japanese scientist by the name of Dr. Shinya Yamanaka managed to reprogram human adult skin cells to behave like embryonic or pluripotent stem cells. In other words, they were capable of developing into any cell in the body. In other words, in a sense, he made them young again. He made them so that they started over. He won the Nobel Prize for their discovery. Now, the problem was when you switch back, when you did this to cells, they lost their identity. Some muscle cells became bank cells that could become anything. And the real challenge is to turn a muscle cell into an embryonic cell that's going to turn into a muscle cell. So, and that is what they've now succeeded in doing. In a study published in 2016, and I'm reading from a story in CNN of all places, in a study published in 2016 by researchers at Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, they showed that you could reduce the sign of aging, could be expunged, in genetically aged mice, that were exposed for short time to the fact as Yamanaka discovered can do, can cause the cell to reverse, to become a stem cell basically. And they could do this without erasing the cell's identity. Now, the problem with what they did in 2016 is it turned out that they could do this for a short time, but then the cells became cancerous. And created cancer tumors, so of course, that was bad. But what's happened now is that in Sinclair's lab, a geneticist by the name of Yunsheng Lu, obviously Chinese, that's a very Chinese name, has managed now to do the same thing without the cancer cell developing, without the harmful effects. So he takes these factors and he puts it into a virus, a harmless virus, and uses the virus to deliver these factors to the cells. In this case, he did it to a mouse's, an old mouse's eyes. And it's pretty amazing, pretty amazing. They switch on, I'm not going to get into the technicalities, I don't really understand them, but they switch on the genes. And it's really cool. The eyes become younger. So you can actually turn certain cells in mice backwards, and backwards in age, and you can make yourself, you can make those cells younger. Now the question is, can you do the same thing with human beings? And more than that, can you do the same thing with the whole body? And that's the next step in the research, is not just to take one set of cells, not to tell muscle cells or eye cells or brain cells, but all cells. And can you do that with a body in general? And that's, I guess, the next step to work on with mice. And then the challenge is to do it with human beings, to do the research in human beings. I found this interesting that Sinclair says that it's going to be years before human trials are finished. I think it's going to be years before they even start. Because they need to get permission to do the human trials. They need to be done, and it could take years to do them. They need to be finished, they need to be analyzed. If they're safe and successful, they need to be scaled. And all of that needs to go in front of the FDA to get a stamp of approval on only then will we get this. So here's what Hopper Campbell, you should be mad about. You should be mad about the fact that the technology might exist in your lifetime. Or let me put it differently. The technology is very likely to exist in your lifetime. Maybe it would even exist today, if not for the FDA, if not for the bureaucracy, and the risk of version, and the slowness, and everything else that's associated with the FDA. Whoa, Troy. Troy has been on a supportive rampage recently. Thank you, Troy. Really, really, really appreciate that. That takes us basically to within $36 of our goal. So Troy just gave $500 Australian dollars. So that's really fantastic. So it's exciting. It's amazing. It's depressing that we've created bureaucratic entities to make this science, this technology that will allow us to live for a long, long time. 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