Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by SketchySeaBeast on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:32PM
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On a long enough timeline, can't we assume that pretty much everyone is going to die of cancer?
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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by TheAdamAndChe on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:22PM
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Elephants are massive, and have a very large number of cells compared to humans, yet their rates of cancer aren't higher than ours. Research indicates that it may be due to TP53, a cancer suppression gene that is repeated a ton in the elephant. I could see anti-aging therapy eventually being used in conjunction with gene therapy to strengthen our own tumor suppression capacity.
Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by James_Henry on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:59PM
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The body, when it is healthy, generally kills cancerous cells on its own. This is, from what I understand why many cancers come with sickness/age, because your body doesn't react as robustly to broken cells as it did in health and youth. Something like "age reduction" could end up being a cure for many cancers, one could think.
Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough?
by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:38AM
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Given that there are cancer's that strike the young as well, I don't know if that would actually work out.