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Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by xiphias2 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:57PM (#21926728)
In my opinion the most important medical advance that happened was reversing methylation based age indicator for the first time in a human. It's a bit sad to not see something so important on this list.
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Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by rococode on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @01:41AM (#21926957)
For anyone curious, I believe this is the relevant paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826138/

And a blog post about it: https://www.activemotif.com/blog-reversing-epigenetic-age

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Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by ekianjo on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @04:53AM (#21927415)
N=10 though... And needs to be reproduced ideally.
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