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A New Anti-Aging Therapy Is Starting Its First Human Trial—and It Costs $1 Million
Singularity Hub ^ | 12/16/19 | Edd Gent

Posted on 12/18/2019 3:54:45 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

Recent research on longevity is making the idea of an elixir of life sound increasingly plausible. But a startup that’s started selling a $1 million anti-aging treatment is most likely jumping the gun.

Libella Gene Therapeutics says it will administer volunteers with a gene therapy that it claims can reverse aging by up to 20 years, according to OneZero. Despite the fact that this is the first human trial of the treatment, the company is charging volunteers $1m to take part. In an effort to side-step the FDA, the trial will take place in Colombia.

The therapy will attempt to repair people’s telomeres, the caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as people get older. It’s long been thought that they play a role in aging, and efforts to extend telomeres in mice have shown that it can delay the signs of getting older and increase healthy lifespan, though it’s yet to be tested in humans.

Libella’s therapy will use viruses to deliver a gene called TERT, which codes for an enzyme called telomerase that re-builds teleomeres, to the patients’ cells.

(Excerpt) Read more at singularityhub.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: aging; technology; therapy
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1 posted on 12/18/2019 3:54:45 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

By the looks of that last photo of Hillary with the chipmunk cheeks, I’d say she was one of their guinea pigs.


2 posted on 12/18/2019 3:57:11 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Fred Mustard Stewart wrote a rather chilling novel on this very topic back in 1970, with the title: “The Methuselah Enzyme”.

I actually used it as one of three Sci-Fi/Dystopia novels that I studied and compared for my Grade 13 Advanced Literature class (High Schools still had a Grade 13 at the time).

In case you wondered, the other two novels I chose were Levin’s “The Boys from Brazil”, and Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange”.


3 posted on 12/18/2019 3:57:41 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I’ll have to come out of retirement if it works.


4 posted on 12/18/2019 3:58:36 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Very similar to a book I just read.


5 posted on 12/18/2019 3:58:54 PM PST by trublu
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To: Kriggerel

Thanks for the post!

I’m curious as to what the real cost is, not in dollars, but what does it actually damage to the body to accomplish this?


6 posted on 12/18/2019 3:59:16 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

People will still kill themselves with booze, tobacky, liberalism, pills, heroin, STDs, fentanyl, and 9,000 calorie per day diets.


7 posted on 12/18/2019 4:02:43 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What are the unintended negative consequences? There are always those.


8 posted on 12/18/2019 4:03:10 PM PST by BusterDog
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Well that’s just great....have everybody live to be 200,then you’ll have to raise the retirement age to 175.


9 posted on 12/18/2019 4:03:41 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: Kriggerel
In the 1970's, I read an SF novel, "Bug Jack Barron" by Norman Spinrad. A talk show host discovers that an immortality treatment has been discovered, and wealthy people are getting it. But the treatment requires the glands of kidnapped children, who are killed in the process.
10 posted on 12/18/2019 4:05:01 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Sounds familiar!

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0734679/

The Trade-Ins (20 Apr. 1962)
TV Episode of The Twilight Zone
The Trade-Ins (1962)
An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.


11 posted on 12/18/2019 4:05:18 PM PST by edwinland
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To: BusterDog

My question also.


12 posted on 12/18/2019 4:08:50 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I have no doubt that this technology will be in effect 100 years from now.

Just look how advanced technology has become in the past 100 years and it's increasing exponentially.......

With that being said, I suspect that some cataclysmic event will happen within the next 100 years that will reset the human population to whatever nature deems necessary.......

13 posted on 12/18/2019 4:12:45 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Hot Tabasco; Mark17; SkyPilot

I believe that cataclysmic event you refer to will happen a lot sooner than 100 years from now.

There have been at least two reset events that I know of, and both had to do with major scientific knowledge/technology we’ve had in the past & our propensity to do evil with it.

IMHO, we’re close to achieving that same level of technology that those previous civilizations had.


14 posted on 12/18/2019 4:20:03 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: mass55th

It has a few side effects.....
You have this sudden urge to hide nuts for the winter.


15 posted on 12/18/2019 4:23:20 PM PST by Zathras
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To: PapaBear3625

“But the treatment requires the glands of kidnapped children, who are killed in the process. “

of course ...


16 posted on 12/18/2019 4:31:59 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: edwinland

“An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.”

i vaguely remember that this was a ripoff of the basic idea of “Gift of the Magi” ...


17 posted on 12/18/2019 4:33:25 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well, as Johnny Carson joked one night, “Scientist are saying that soon we will live to be 200. Gee! After 150, there’s not much left to do!”


18 posted on 12/18/2019 4:35:48 PM PST by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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To: mass55th

I don’t believe those photo’s are Hillary. She has been replaced for whatever reason. And this new Hillary is actually a hundred times more ugly. In fact she looks like a creepy clown. Something from Stephen King.

But if Hillary is ever brought up on charges then the prosecutors better be sure to have her DNA and finger prints checked. Hopefully the records on file have not already been falsified.


19 posted on 12/18/2019 4:46:47 PM PST by Revel
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And that’s how the zombie apocalypse started...


20 posted on 12/18/2019 4:52:32 PM PST by Valpal1
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