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Why Do We Get Old, and Can Aging Be Reversed?

The Joy of Why

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Transgenic Mice

There's no intellectual reason why we can't make transgenic people. The drug that we use to kill sonescent cells in the mouse would not work in te human, because humans are not transgenic. But the idea would be now to develop new drugs, and they they are being developed. There are already some that are being used in mice, and even a few in early stage clinical trials in people. And so the punch line here is that, if this really comes to pass, this gives us hope for postponing, ameliorating, or possibly reversing some of these many age related dis that you told us about. Yes, wow. You'll die on the tennis core

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