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Re:Japan’s anti-aging vaccine looks promising in mice by nomel on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @02:13PM (#29640896)
To put it another way, this won't extend the Hayflick limit [1], so your cells will still die after the same number of divisions.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit

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Re:Japan’s anti-aging vaccine looks promising in mice by grishka on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:21PM (#29641642)
There's telomerase whose job is to lengthen telomeres. Telomere attrition is not irreversible.
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Re:Japan’s anti-aging vaccine looks promising in mice by nomel on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:24PM (#29641670)
Yes, and this vaccine is unrelated, which I believe was the grandparent comments point.
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