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Old Stems Cells Young Again — Via Vampirism
pdragon04 writes to tell us that in recent tests a Howard Hughes Medical Institute team has found that through exposure to "young" blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well. "The researchers have not yet isolated the blood-borne factors that can switch old stem cells back to a more youthful state, but their results are consistent with other recent studies that show stem-cell aging may be reversible. Together those results suggest that it might one day be possible to boost the practical lifespan of stem cells, and thereby increase the body’s resistance to disease and age-related degeneration."
And do you respect yourself in the morning, um, er evening? Whenever....
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I'll live forever if I eat babies?
It almost sounds like Peter Watts' concepts are moving from his fiction into mainstream science. Well, I for one ...
in TFA.
Didn't they see the Dark Angel episode where Logan got a blood transfusion from Max, and was the able to walk a couple of eps later. Clearly researcher don't watch enough scifi. ~:-)
Elizabeth Bathory could have told them all about it.
To see if younger blood could reverse the sluggishness of aging blood cells, the researchers began by surgically joining the bloodstreams of pairs of mice that were of different ages, but nearly clones of one another.
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I read TFA (gasp! rare!)
They were using older and diabetic mice for their tests.
I can't help but wonder if this discovery may have some effect on diabetes treatments in the future. For diabetics who still have some pancreatic function, and aren't wholly dependent on pills, maybe the results found from this research could help them.
As for those who are dependent on pills, needles, and the like, I could wonder what it would do for them.
The article didn't really clarify what happened with the diabetes in the affected test subjects, though, so I lack that answer.
One of these days, I am going to flip out. When I flip out, I'll be back in five minutes.
I'll stay young the old-fashioned way: eat sensibly, exercise, and suck the life force from teenage virgins.
They always say that Science is catching up to Science Fiction.
Now it appears that Science is catching up to Paranormal as well.
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Ye gods this is going to be interesting...
Mr. Burns is well known to have lived beyond his years due to infusions of blood from young boys.
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Right now the comments on this topic are 85% jokes. Fun.
So, how about a serious (read: overwraught) discussion. Postulate: no greater crimes will be committed against humanity than when we discover the secrets to clinical immortality.
. . . start to act young again . . . through exposure to "young" blood cells . . .
. . . especially if those "young" blood cells are packaged in an actractive young woman.
. . . if they want to conduct a study on that, I'll be available in about 50 years . . .
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Although they try to match size, then relative age, sometimes out of expediency a recipient must accept a donor a decade, two, or even three decades older than themselves. Would these organs age at the donor's rate or recipient's rate? I'm guessing the answer is "in between". Depending on the tissue, the donor cells may be slowly replaced by host stem cells over the decades and become more host-like. Heart and muscle has a slow turnover rate of one percent a year. So hearts are never fully converted. Some of the earliest organs recipients have lived 3 or 4 decades.
Old stems those cells, ha? Is that what they call it now? Since I have gone this way already let's continue with that. He, Old, stems them wicked, stems them good!
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Do the cells sparkle after this procedure?
Screw the Red Cross, I'm going to start selling my blood to rich old people!
...in the Kurzweil might not be completely full of shit even if he is crazy column.
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It is the year 22XX. World leaders and major executives stopped aging over a hundred years ago. With each passing year, contamination claims more and more stockpiles of precious infant vitae. Armies are raised and butchered in the names of aristocrats elevated beyond mortality's grasp. That from above man may, instead of fleeing its footsteps, behold death's visage shall turn son against father lest the cruelties of time remind days of ephemerality.
It will bring new meaning to 'blood money'.
Wasn't this an episode of Babylon 5?
Step 1. Abduct teenage girls with proper blood type.
Step 2. Drain them of said blood, Discard remaining husk.
Step 3. Drain your tainted blood while infusing theirs.
Step 4. Hire Amazing P.R. firm to make teenage girls love you.
Step 5. Immortal Profit!
One painless, uncontroversial source of both young blood and stem cells is (or was) your umbilical cord blood. This is usually thrown away. Collecting it after a baby is born is trivially easy. The material is easy to preserve for decades. Costs are mostly related to storage & record-keeping.
I'm 55. With my luck I'll be 70 by the time they figure this out, and of course that will be the point of no return......
A fairly older friend of mine's got type 2 diabetes and he sais he's been keeping it under control with diet , exercise and a couple of plant extracts.
Now I'm not big on all the "nature treatments" and stuff if i can't read a proper scientific paper on the active ingredients and how they go about their business , and frankly i haven't given it much effort but it seems to work for him and he no longer has to take those nasty sulfamides the docs were feeding him.
So here's a list of the stuff he takes: ., he's taking "insulina verde" (ie green insulin in english) by hofigal , also local i think) You should be able to find tinctures containing that anywhere though. ..china town ?. It's supposed to be plant based , haven't the slightest clue what it contains , probably more of what i've listed in a different form.
1) gymnema sylvestre (he's taking some pills called diabecon containing that , and i'm not sure but i think they're local , but anything containing that should be good)
2) momordica charantia (some kind of cucumbers
3) Diabetico , made by Tang xin so
4) Diavit , made by some local guy , ingredients are: Vaccinium myrtillus , Hippophae rhannoides
So search for those ingredients and see what you can find locally that's got the same basic things, so far it's been working great for'em and his mom as well.
:). One great site i found ( abcbodybuilding.com ) has great articles on diet and exercise , and you'll probably be glad you're getting in shape as well.
Now if you're serious about your health you're going to permanetly fix this , and not just rely on plants to keep you above the floating line.
I've studied everything i could related to type 2 diabetes , and what has to be done about it. You know what i've noticed ? Body builders do everything a type 2 diabetic is supposed to do to maintain healthy , because they need insulin sensitivity (what you're lacking) in order to reach their goals.
As such i recommend you start bodybuilding
You've probably heard it all before , but health is worth the effort , do something about it before it's too late. My friend is too lazy to do it , even though i've shown him the results (I'm sorta predisposed to diabetes myself , i just started weightlifting and dieting like the Terminator in time and my bloodwork went from red to black in a few months). The deal is , you have to keep at it , it's a lifestyle change , not a quick fix.
Good health to you mate.
I saw Dr. Wager's presentation at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting this past December. They surgically attached an old mouse to a young mouse, and allowed cross-circulation to occur. They took blood samples, then later separated the mice and re-measured. It is a brilliantly simple idea (though I imagine the surgery must have been difficult). I think it's amazing! Oh, and according to the researcher apparently the mice didn't care that they were sewn together!! not sure how they determined that part...
The had the mice fill out a questionaire after they were separated.
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Supporting a hypothesis of "Quantum Immortality" an obvious alternative to the simulation hypothesis, with references to the anthropic principle.
If every possible universe exists in quantum superposition, then I am experiencing this one because it is the one in which I live the longest, or the one in which I never cease to exist.
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Hungarian scientists already knew that.
Couldn't help being reminded of the rejuvenation method invented for humans that didn't have the "Lazarus Gene" in Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love".
Well, apparently, you only have to fool the majority of people for a little while.