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2019-12-07 Science & Technology

60 Minutes genetic aging process reversal update

[60 Minutes] The geneticist whose work helped map the human genome, the first step in the quest to manipulate what is essentially the software of human life, says reversing the aging process in humans may be less than 20 years away. George Church takes Scott Pelley into his Harvard Medical School lab to see his latest work for a 60 Minutes report to be broadcast Sunday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT on CBS.

Just imagine a world with Pelosi controlling the US House for centuries ...

Thanks to Church and others whose work decoded DNA, called the building blocks of life, the day when humans will no longer be prone to viruses or genetic diseases is coming. But one of the next breakthroughs could be reversing the basic process of age itself. "Age reversal is something that's been proven about eight different ways on animals," says Church. He tells Pelley that in mice, tissue damage has been repaired, reaction times sped up and cognition improved.

Knowing the specific functions of genes in a creature's DNA allows scientists to edit or add genes to the sequence and change outcomes. A paper just published by Church and several other scientists shows how added multiple genes in mice improved heart and kidney function and levels of blood sugar. "The gene function is going down [with age] and so we're boosting it back up by putting in extra copies of the gene," he explains, saying that this is gene therapy.

The next step toward replicating this science in humans is to achieve the same results in a clinical trial using dogs that he is conducting now. The process could be perfected in humans in less than 20 years says Church. "That veterinary product might be a couple years away. And then that takes another 10 years to get through the human clinical trials."

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

#1 If people are interested the FightAging email is once a week and normally interesting (if a little loaded to the removing senescence = youth angle). With a simplified precis of the research in front of each article.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-07 07:33|| 2019-12-07 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I know I'm at the shorter end of the lifespan entitlement, but I would hate to think about a place where every small town and city resembled 'The Villages.' How boring.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-07 07:48|| 2019-12-07 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 One way to solve the Social Security funding problem. Do away with retirement. It also solves the need to import labor, only need replacements for accidents not age.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-07 08:04|| 2019-12-07 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm going to make my exit before all this nonsense hits. Fortunately.

Posted by gorb 2019-12-07 19:19|| 2019-12-07 19:19|| Front Page Top

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