The study also examined whether the breakdown could be prevented or reversed. Sinclair’s team dosed the mice with resveratrol, the chemical found in red wine that is known to improve the function of SIRT1, and also engineered mice to naturally produce more SIRT1. They found that both tactics increased the lifespan of cancer-prone mice by 24 to 46 percent. Says Sinclair: “What this paper actually implies is that aspects of aging may be reversible…. It sounds crazy, but in principle it should be possible to restore the youthful set of genes, the patterns that are on and off” [Boston Globe blog].

Via 80beats. So yeah, take that nature, take that god. If my generation isn’t the first to achieve physical immortality (the psychic factor will have to be dealt with separately) my children will. We will become as like unto gods as we have thought of them since time immemorial, and this corner of the galaxy and eventually the universe will tremble with our might.

Unless we blow ourselves to shit nuclearly or via biowarfare. Or asteroids, collapse of the Sun, etc.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 16:55.