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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by spywaregorilla on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:43AM (#28130224)
We don't need to worry about mRNA vaccines doing this. You'd need to actually reverse aging. Stopping diseases one by one will never work. They're simply not preventable in the long term.

The population dynamics of such a situation would be dwarfed, imo, by the political and wealth inequality problems. Society is structured firmly around an average human lifespan.

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by programmarchy on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:36PM (#28132495)
Just to clarify, I didn't mean mRNA technology in the sense of vaccines, but rather gene therapy techniques that could reverse or slow down aging processes. Like the top post in this thread mentioned, there are new mRNA medicines coming out to treat cancer, for example, and if that pans out and the technology is really up and running then I imagine things like life extension would be on the table.
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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by spywaregorilla on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:10PM (#28134597)
Nah don't get your hopes up. "Treat a cancer" is very different from a general cure for cancer, which is simply never going to be possible with a generic injection or anything like that. These approaches will fundamentally ever work.

Life extension in the sense of average lifespan marginally increasing is possible, but in the sense of reducing aging is a very very different problem.

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