Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people (www.newscientist.com)

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This is cool in the abstract, on our timeline though?...

“My other thought is how difficult it is to obtain stem cells from volunteers. There would need to be a lot of volunteers to treat everyone with frailty.”

Gonna be a LOT of "volunteers" for rich people I suspect.

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[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 minutes ago

can we revert cells from the same person to more useful stem cells and grow that biomass and then injury them with their own stem cells?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell?wprov=sfti1

Or would that have the same validity as stem cells from a younger person?

Why wouldn’t we just do that with some kind of prime candidate? Or selection of best pluripotent strains?

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

Better start lacing your blood with arsenic and foxglove now...

Source: The House of the Scorpion

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago

Well heavy metal pollution in rice is a growing problem, and with environmental regulations going away…

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Well the good news is the rich will have to keep the blood of some of us uncontaminated so they can concentrate it in their bodies!

Would you like to hear the bad news now?

[-] princess 16 points 4 hours ago

The modern longevity movement is a vampire disclosure program

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 hours ago

Is this why George H is implicated in Epstein dumps for murdering an infant and consuming the entrails?

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