Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/29/2010 9:18:29 PM PST by djf
Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs Scientists claim to be a step closer to reversing the ageing process after rejuvenating worn out organs in elderly mice. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy animals by regenerating their aged bodies. The surprise recovery of the animals has raised hopes among scientists that it may be possible to achieve a similar feat in humans – or at least to slow down the ageing process.
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Thnx.
I had seen some vid reports about using extracellular matrix sheets to grow a new bladder for a woman who had bladder cancer.
Alot of interesting stuff going on.
Of course the moral dillema is... should we? What happens when the boomers go on living “forever” and the earth is stuffed with more generations alive at the same time draining the earth’s resources.
If it is just a matter of living one’s natural life span with less disease and degeneration, well that could be another matter.
One hell of a state lottery game, eh?
Match 8 numbers and LIVE FOREVER!!!!
“If it is just a matter of living one’s natural life span with less disease and degeneration, well that could be another matter.”
No one’s talking about living forever. A normal lifespan (to one’s 80s or 90s) is fine if you could be healthy and active to the end.
Some people just happen to be genetically hardier than others. Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became president, but he didn’t have gray hair until after he was out of office. When he had surgery to remove a colon growth in 1985, the doctors noted that his organs were like those of a man at least 20 years younger (or so I read). He also had a very healthy for his age blood pressure reading of 140. Of course, we all know about the Alzheimer’s in his last years, but he still lived to 92.
And somehow Keith Richards is still alive despite the awesome quantities of drugs he’s consumed in his day.
We are on the brink of a brave new world...
They covered this on ABC Nightly news this evening and when the researcher being interviewed said “it restores fertility”, I really thought I would laugh myself silly. What are we Senior Saints gonna do with ‘restored fertility’? It just hit me the wrong way, I guess.
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I dunno, I don’t think I want to be 13 again ;-)
They should use Helen Thomas and Hillary C. as test subjects. If it works on them is will work on anybody.
That's pretty cool. I can see someone with severe arthritis having their hands amputated then in a few months having new ones.
Yea, and I saw a woman once that used wasp jelly on her skin to make her look younger and she turned into a monster that killed people. I think that woman was a Harvard researcher too....
Great! Just what we need. Mice that live longer.
Hasn't gone away for thousands of years.
The older I get, the more interested I am in stuff like this. :-)
On the other hand, my ideological side says that we can’t allow people to live forever, it will be the end of our way of life.
Well, nothing would guarantee that you would live forever. There will always be disease, accidents, wars, etc.
In fact it sounds like they haven’t yet been able to prove that it makes anybody live longer. It will take many detailed studies of cellular biology, hormone levels, energy and diets, etc to determine if this is actually turning back the clock and setting things up for a long (perhaps VERY long) lifespan.
But even if it means that a person who lives till they are 87, but in a ravaged and debilitating state could then live to 87, but do it in a body that’s like in their forties, that would be a good thing.
U seriously doubt you will ever be able to go into the local Rite-Aid and buy pills OTC that do this sort of thing.
Typo.
I seriously doubt, not U seriously doubt.
This is exciting and frightening at the same time, retirement would be an obsolete concept, some of the worst dictators and tyrants around would be immortal.
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