>>14040598Yes. We are working on it. There is really good progress on this front, but it won't be exactly what you imagine. For one, ageing is not the same thing as growing up. Even if we can hault the mechanisms of ageing, we will all look around 30. Also, we probably won't get immortality, we will only get high longevity.
>>14040729Yes, those are some of the models we are looking at, though it is ultimately only a way to figure out what is causing ageing, targeting the mechanism isn't actually the hard part.
>>14040737Yes, we will al die eventually, but there is no reason we can't increase our longevity.
>>14040783This kind of thing actually does increase healthy lifespan by 10-30 years, but no more. The key molecular mechanisms of ageing can't be avoided by living healthy. At best the accumulation of their effects can be slowed.
These threads come up from time to time, and i always try to answer. I am a very junior researcher at a uni, where many of the departments (organic chem, biochem and genetics) are dedicated to increasing longevity. I'm part of a research group in the genetics depatment.
If you have any questions on the topic of ageing, the mechanisms or what we are trying to do to stop them, i'm happy to answer.
pic not related, just something from a class i took a few years ago
