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Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20

71 points • by arunc • yesterday at 11:34 PM • 23 comments • view on HN

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layer8 • yesterday at 11:59 PM

If something like this ever becomes a practical application on the organismal level, the octogenarian dictators of the world will rejoice.

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inshard • today at 12:26 AM

Slightly tangential: Michael Levin’s work on bioelectricity and cell reprogramming is pretty interesting in context of emergent behaviors in groups of cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levin_(biologist)

m463 • today at 12:00 AM

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sigh.
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sgnelson • today at 12:57 AM

My nightmare is that we solve aging just in time for the Baby Boomers to live forever.

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