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from:msnbc.comScientists have found specific genetic variants which may explain why some people age earlier than others and say their findings have important implications for understanding cancer and age-related diseases.
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I wondered why, they said, that I wasn't old enough to collect social security.
I've been saying this on the forums for several years, and on newsvine for more than a year.
Cancer cells shut down the "telemerase cell kill transcript".
Identifying appropriate genes associated with this will eventually help solve human aging, possibly even reverse it.
This reminds me of the story of Wallace and Darwin. Darwin quickly published his writings when he discovered that Wallace had already published his, on the exact same principles.
I bet you're a MD "doctor" and not a PhD. It's pretty clear you don't understand how easy it would be to screen for the varient (since it's been identified), and how cheap the assay would be. In addition, cancer acts through a variety of mechanisms, that's why one treatment won't work for all types of cancer. One should never jump to conclusions, there are no easy fixes, or cancer (and aging) would be cured already!
With your "PhD" you'd think your grammer skills would have been better, along with your financial skills at determining laboratory costs? Even if the costs were only $10 per patient we are talking about Billions of $USD. (Unless you have perfected nanospore sequencing?) Maybe we should all sit back and watch you cure these diseases. What's your proposal?
Furthermore, I said nothing about curing cancer whatsoever. I said "HELP" solve aging. Perhaps you are mixing posts from others.
By the way, indeed it is MD, PhD as well. Don't address me personally again, troll somewhere else.
That would be "grammar" skills, Doctor. And it's not wise to criticize someone else's writing skills when there are 2 punctuation errors and one spelling error in your first sentence alone.
How far up does it speed the aging process? Who writes this trash?
Check the second paragraph: 3-4 years. I'd like to read more on the spread of people in their mid-thirties and why there is such as rapid visual decline for women after 35. It's as if every year is two years of aging.
Ouch Ian! I noticed the same thing in men after forty though!
Yes, something happens to men as well, but it seems to take place a few years later. When women say they mature earlier, that also means they age faster, physically and mentally.
SteppenWolf- God D&& the Pusher Man!
If we have universal healthcare, that gene will be used to see if you're worth the expense of "fixing" when you're sick.
I seriously doubt the expensive testing would be done for such gene analyses. The costs would be "astronomical". Sounds more like a hollywood conspiracy theory, nothing more.