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[Ken]

From Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5937249/scientists-clear-a-path-to-the-fountain-of-eternal-youth

Original paper
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042838

[Tiberious Thessalonia]

Good.  Maybe now we can get past the people who feel its wrong to use excess bits and pieces from otherwise non-viable embryos to cure diseases in people who are actually alive right now.

[Saede Riordan]

Good.  Maybe now we can get past the people who feel its wrong to use excess bits and pieces from otherwise non-viable embryos to cure diseases in people who are actually alive right now.

^This^

If this is a way around that irritating 'moral dilemma' then its great news for science.

[lallara zhuul]

I think the embryo thing is a remnant from the scandal back in the 80's where embryos were used for beauty products.

The hospitals still sell the placentas and rest of the leftovers from births to private interests.

[Matariki Rain]

I think the embryo thing is a remnant from the scandal back in the 80's where embryos were used for beauty products.

The hospitals still sell the placentas and rest of the leftovers from births to private interests.

Just going to say that that sounds very location-specific, and I thought even in the UK (which used to sell to French pharma companies) it was no longer acceptable without consent.

=Mata, writing from a country where the indigenous culture cares quite strongly what happens to the placenta.

[Lyn Farel]

Placenta ? wat ?

[Desiderya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtE1jtZL2iU this.

[Wanoah]

Personally, I want to live a thousand years. I want backups, and clones and all that Culture shit and I want it now.

Still, given that human overpopulation is the root cause of most of our tiny homeworld's most pressing problems, maybe the secret of eternal youth isn't one we need to unravel right now.

Instead, then, maybe I'll trade my 1,000 years for guaranteed secular education for all women across the planet and universal contraception: two things that when combined amount to a panacea for almost all of our ills.