Negligible Senescence

[Synergeon]

Hi everyone!

I was reading about the FOX Proteins which seem to play a crucial role in the non-senescence of the Hydra organisms and I was thinking if there have ever been experiments to transfer the genes coding these proteins into other organisms, maybe using the gene therapy techniques, so that the modification can be applied to a living being using a genetically modified virus.

Sound quite interesting to me, since of course it makes me dream about immortality
What do you know about? What are your thoughts about?

 

[Intezam]

:shock: well....let's hope the demographic Typhoid Maries do not learn (more) about that...

 

[Synergeon]

I can see a bit of irony

I want to clearly state that I've not post claiming to have found the secret to immortality, but I've just read about this stuff which, according to wikipedia, seems could play a role in the extension of human life-span.

If someone is better educated than me about this subject please post what he knows about, perhaps explaining me what are the main issues and what make it just a silly dream

 

[Intezam]

RE: ...the main issues and what make it just a silly dream

why...the xtra stress of a short life span can be a good thing....some xtra helter-skelter squrirrely punch & push ...
...is not a silly dream, but something that could be here already...

 

[alex mowry]

now i don't exactly feel educated into this specific thing; but i do have some stuff i've thought about the thing next to immortality; hardcore life span increasing.

now; i feel like the whole reason why we can't live to be like 200 or 300 or a million years old is because we'd literally and individually have to work together to the point that we'd support both a rapid and unusually large healthiness; and we'd have to allow for the world around us to live to reach that same life span. there's also the fundamental factor of the intriacies between adaption and evolution and how we have yet to fundamentally and complexly understand these two words to the point that we can live for either forever or for a longer span of life.

perhaps we need a better bioeconomy?

perhaps we need not only a better bioeconomy; but a mental and emotional economy as well; of which all economies of all kind support each other in co-harmony.

i do not know; but honestly the answer is just a key; and it's the simple part to reaching a longer lived life; aka we're all in a longer life together and we affect each other's life span and length there of.

now comes the more complex and complicated part of living longer and happier at the same time; the driving the said anological "car" with said key; of which said task isn't so easy as it's system is to start up; then comes the maintenance of the condition of said anological vehicle; and eventually getting used to the process of living longer and happier.

and yes; i think of life like a car in the way it has tons of intermeshing and intermingling parts that do stuff and make loud and disturbing noises and that everything in a car works together to get you where you need to do as well as producing pollution! but seriously; we needs to work on a little bit of each thing so that we live longer and happier

another brief "novel" by meh!

The end... or will it ever be?! DUN DUN DUN!

 

[8x8state]

if we lived much longer the suffering of humanity would increase.
it sometimes seems as if people get entrenched in their worldview and absorbed in their own consciousness more as they get older...they'd be more likely to and able to influence humanity negatively,