New Batin's blogpost in Telegram about non-existence of the theory of aging:
Here's the translation:
There's an article by Vadim Gladyshev called "Disagreements on the Fundamental Principles of the Biology of Aging."
Its main conclusion is simple: on the most fundamental questions in the biology of aging, scientists have no agreement. What's more, there isn't even a consensus on whether such a consensus is needed at all.
The authors surveyed more than a hundred specialists — professors, postdocs, and other researchers — and asked them just a few basic question...
Link post: An Immortal Facepalm
https://anairos.livejournal.com/417332.html
A good blog post from anairos
"Once again YouTube recommended me yet another video on the theme of "Why eternal life sucks," and once again I sighed, because I no longer have the strength left to facepalm at the sight of this foolishness.
No, I get it — immortality isn't in the cards for us under any scenario. Even extending a full, active life by forty or fifty years is already far beyond our capabilities and understanding. So all that's left is to comfort ourselves with fairy tales ...
Link post: "One of my friends posted a link to a Russian project searching for immortality — personally funded by Putin. I couldn't resist, followed the link, read it — and now I'm sitting here laughing. A billion-ruble budget, mind you. Lots of pretty words — like bioprinting.
In principle, what they call bioprinting — i.e., growing cells of the needed specialization from precursor cells — already exists to some degree. The problem is that getting from the first successes in the lab to successfully applying this principle in medicine takes generations — an...