Prepare for Immortality/Indefinite Lifespans

[JimBowie1958]

It is really just indefinite life spans, but it is still an exciting development.

I am afraid I will likely miss the actuarial lift off, but hjey, this is good for you all!


Genetic researchers reverse wrinkles, gray hair and balding in mice, called ‘unprecedented’

Science has made mice look good by reversing age-related wrinkles and hair loss at the genetic level. Humanity could get a similar make-over in the future.

“Wrinkled skin and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be reversed?” asked researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham — who appear to have accomplished that feat, according to the research team.

They introduced a specific gene mutation on a test mouse, which prompted a change in profound appearance. Within four weeks, the mouse had developed wrinkled skin and extensive, visible hair loss. When regular function was restored within the gene by turning off the culprit mutation, the mouse returned to a previous life of smooth skin and luxurious fur only two months later — deemed “indistinguishable” from a healthy mouse of the same age.

“To our knowledge, this observation is unprecedented,” said Keshav Singh, a professor of genetics who led the study.

“This mouse model should provide an unprecedented opportunity for the development of preventive and therapeutic drug development strategies to augment the mitochondrial functions for the treatment of aging-associated skin and hair pathology and other human diseases in which mitochondrial dysfunction plays a significant role,” Mr. Singh said in a statement.​

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Immortality on Earth means you better find a damned good immortal job to pay for it.

 

[shockedcanadian]

It is really just indefinite life spans, but it is still an exciting development.

I am afraid I will likely miss the actuarial lift off, but hjey, this is good for you all!


Genetic researchers reverse wrinkles, gray hair and balding in mice, called ‘unprecedented’

Science has made mice look good by reversing age-related wrinkles and hair loss at the genetic level. Humanity could get a similar make-over in the future.

“Wrinkled skin and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be reversed?” asked researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham — who appear to have accomplished that feat, according to the research team.

They introduced a specific gene mutation on a test mouse, which prompted a change in profound appearance. Within four weeks, the mouse had developed wrinkled skin and extensive, visible hair loss. When regular function was restored within the gene by turning off the culprit mutation, the mouse returned to a previous life of smooth skin and luxurious fur only two months later — deemed “indistinguishable” from a healthy mouse of the same age.

“To our knowledge, this observation is unprecedented,” said Keshav Singh, a professor of genetics who led the study.

“This mouse model should provide an unprecedented opportunity for the development of preventive and therapeutic drug development strategies to augment the mitochondrial functions for the treatment of aging-associated skin and hair pathology and other human diseases in which mitochondrial dysfunction plays a significant role,” Mr. Singh said in a statement.​

The sad truth is, when they perfect this, and they eventually will, we will all have missed this and we will just be another generation that is dust in the wind. Future generations will look back and say "this is what our primitive humans looked like" and they will be aghast at how humans look when they age.

The future generations will only perish by diseases uncured, accidents, or the big one, via the hand of other humans. If such a product hits the market, you can imagine the costs would essentially be prohibitive for 99.999%, eventually it will be cost effective for all, and nuclear war will be more of a potential as 1000 year old people decide they are tired of it all.

 

[JimBowie1958]

The future generations will only perish by diseases uncured, accidents, or the big one, via the hand of other humans. If such a product hits the market, you can imagine the costs would essentially be prohibitive for 99.999%, eventually it will be cost effective for all, and nuclear war will be more of a potential as 1000 year old people decide they are tired of it all.

I suspect that you are being overly pessimistic in this matter.

Insurance companies will see this as a bonanza and their clients will be so healthy that there will be few old age related costs for them, most of which are incurred in the last five years of a clients life span.

I think companies like Aetna and Blue Cross will make this treatment so universal that it will be dirt cheap instead.

 

[karpenter]

This Only Applies To Superficial Effects Of Aging
Not Life Span