George Church - Cognition Genes. Aging Reversal. Lab-built Brain Components.

[@elizabethgregory3518]

Congratulations, brilhante mind!

[@kakistocracyusa]

So - lots of clever talk; no demonstration of any complex organisms living significantly longer than usual. Awesome!

[@danielsacilotto3196]

Right, why even bother doing research if we cannot get the end goal immediately?

[@kakistocracyusa]

@@danielsacilotto3196 Doing R&D is not the same as pimping. Not sure why you're confused on this, but you're not alone.

[@Pravin_Yeshua_BTC]

Where can I get my whole genome sequenced & edited? / Fertility

[@EdwardPike]

You can store the genome for any organism in one cell from that organism. Axiomatic.

[@brianqi8741]

Wait is it US Canada Austria? or Australia?

[@bennguyen1313]

I heard it said that injecting stem cells from someone else, doesn't work because the immune system detects it as foreign.. However, the part that's scary is how the stem cells between an Alzheimer brain and a non-diseased brain are the same.. yet when differentiated, lead to different functioning neural progenitor cells! So assuming one's own stem cells can be made into endothelial/capillary cells.. what confidence is there that it would function properly and deliver blood to a neuron cell? Regarding the non-protein-coding area of dna.. aside from cis and trans regulatory elements that modulate gene transcription, any thoughts on the role other junk dna plays - Pseudogenes , Transposons, Satellite DNA /telomeres?

[@maromaro1909]

George Church - Aging Reversal ;-) hmmm, - - - and he looks 15 years older than his age, hehehe very smart man.

[@gervaciobennett8271]

That sounds like Elon musk in a mask.

[@yankee1376]

Aging reversal is a great technology. I definitely want to see it. I do fear one thing however: wealth and power is already concentrated in older persons, if they never die how will that affect future generations ? Or to put it another way: what would the world look like in 2019 if Stalin was still alive and kicking? Or Jim Crow politicians? Or entire generations of the racist, sexist elites that ruled us in past centuries?

[@patrickwallace8186]

Rember it will be your choice if you want to take it or not.... or just waste away in a bed in an old folks home. LISTEN NO ONE GIVES A DAMN IF YOU TAKE THE MEDICINE OR NOT! Just don't take IT.....know one gives a shit about you. OK? Don't take it! There is a guy at the centenary running a back hole that needs to keep his job digging graves and better you than ME!!

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Yankee, these are the most legitimate concerns about life extension. Wealth inequality can be dealt with via progressive taxation. If Stalin were still alive, someone would probably kill him, or maybe he'd be in a different line of work or some sort of witness protection program. The final problem of a slowing of social change does not have a good answer. We could have "term limits" in more areas. One could make the argument that social changes are coming too fast, and some amount of slowing down might not be the worst thing in the world. While there would be more old ideas around, there would also be more wisdom that comes from a longer life experience and a sharper brain later in life. These might at least be countervailing factors. Maybe it wouldn't be as bad as all that.

[@nikw3026]

life is unfair - get over it. I don't get why Gen Z folks have so much trouble with this. Maybe because they were coddled from the womb?

[@mt570]

@@nikw3026 OK Boomer

[@ManPursueExcellence]

Nik W Stop trying to act hard 😂.

[@theuktoday4233]

is this crazy madman related to Josef Mengele or Frankenstein?

[@davidconroy1340]

There's no Frankenstein's at Harvard.

[@patrickwallace8186]

Rember it will be your choice if you want to take it or not.... or just waste away in a bed in an old folks home. LISTEN NO ONE GIVES A DAMN IF YOU TAKE THE MEDICINE OR NOT! Just don't take IT.....know one gives a shit about you. OK? Don't take it! There is a guy at the centenary running a back hole that needs to keep his job digging graves and better you than ME!!

[@incognitotorpedo42]

@@patrickwallace8186 Lighten up man.

[@maromaro1909]

@@davidconroy1340 ONLY Josef Mengeles are there.

[@maromaro1909]

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