Apologies if already posted but thought this was interesting.

BBC Link

Pandora’s Box?

This is the bit that seems odd to me. Surely if they help to heal wounds and stop tumours you don’t want to flush them out. Then again I’m no scientist.

The approach works by flushing out retired or “senescent” cells in the body that have stopped dividing.
They accumulate naturally with age and have a role in wound healing and stopping tumours.

And can I have my baldness cure before the immortality pill please?

“people insisted I was crazy for trying”

Exciting stuff! 🙂

Argh! My eyes 😯 Ernie that is disturbing.

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If it’s working by keeping cells dividing for longer then there was something else on TV the other day about ageing and mentioned something discovered a while back that can prevent cells from reaching finite cell division, but the major downside is the cells will then go on to develop into cancer cells. Reason being that cell division makes a copy of the DNA and increasingly errors are made.

Oddly it seems cancer cells defeat the limit making them theoretically immortal. Just that the cancer goes on to kill the host by wrecking the functions of the organs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit

(edit: my crude understanding from TV and Internet. I’m sure there’s way more to it than that, or likely bollox).

Check out ernie’s new bike 😛

treatment for old age.

The only treatment for old age is death. Keep it dignified. Please don’t drag peoples old lives out for longer than nature intended*.

*Opens pandoras ethical / moral box.

Sure I saw a documentary about that. Some side-effects apparently.

Edit: ah here we go:

[video]https://youtu.be/6GctdWpQcmA[/video]