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Re:Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human tr... by nom on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:28AM (#13409226)
For some reason all topics involving the ageing progress have clickbaity headlines when repeated by the news. How come that they always call it 'reversing', when it obviously can't be nothing more than 'slowing down'?
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Re:Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human tr... by gnode on Monday January 16, 2017 @12:56PM (#13411625)
Why can't it be 'reversing', or at least reversing effects of ageing? A major part of ageing is the progressive degradation of the body's ability to repair itself, resulting in illness. If a therapy improves the ability of the body to repair itself, and age related illnesses are thus overcome, then arguably ageing has been reversed.
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