The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159859 Message #3788790
Posted By: Donuel
05-May-16 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: A new blue pill
Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
Jack, that is a funny butimportant question.
In one of my old essays I wrote of the tendency to price for the wealthy market. What do we do with a hundred immortal Bill Gates. Of course immortality is not the reality here.
I am suspicious of anything that begins with niconoid but I know the research is about 10 years old now and has the support of Nobel Prize winners.
The early attempts to extend life involved removing the code that normally told a cell to stop dividing or renewing itself. That age defying technique did work but occasionally resulted in cancer.
If we lived 500 years I hope there'd be less misery there may not be fewer tears but we might learn from history