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- 1234 January 2014
- MirandaJuly January 2014
- YoursTruly January 2014
Gene therapy delivered successfully via virus injected into human eye
$50k+/day gene therapy "rejuv" for ultra-rich? Has the first 200-year-old person been born yet? 500-year-old?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519426/gene-therapy-tested-as-a-way-to-stop-blindness/
“We need to push gene therapy forward, to apply it before vision is gone,” says Robert MacLaren, an ophthalmologist at the University of Oxford who led the study. “When retinal damage gets to a certain point, it’s beyond repair.”
Replace "vision/retinal damage" with your pick of ailment.
From a helpful commenter at above article, "Gene therapy has been shown to produce miraculous results, of course, within the current technology limits, for example, treatment of diabetes in dogs, DOI:10.2337/db12-1113, heart failure therapy (Singularity Hub, Dec 13), treatment of aging in mice, DOI:10.1002/emmm.201200245, prevention of mitochondrial diseases, DOI:10.1038/nature11647, silencing of glioblastoma in mice, DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3006839, treatment of leukemia (Singularity Hub, Jan 6), and more... and now this. Most promising."
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519426/gene-therapy-tested-as-a-way-to-stop-blindness/
“We need to push gene therapy forward, to apply it before vision is gone,” says Robert MacLaren, an ophthalmologist at the University of Oxford who led the study. “When retinal damage gets to a certain point, it’s beyond repair.”
Replace "vision/retinal damage" with your pick of ailment.
From a helpful commenter at above article, "Gene therapy has been shown to produce miraculous results, of course, within the current technology limits, for example, treatment of diabetes in dogs, DOI:10.2337/db12-1113, heart failure therapy (Singularity Hub, Dec 13), treatment of aging in mice, DOI:10.1002/emmm.201200245, prevention of mitochondrial diseases, DOI:10.1038/nature11647, silencing of glioblastoma in mice, DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3006839, treatment of leukemia (Singularity Hub, Jan 6), and more... and now this. Most promising."
Comments
I fully anticipate a global culture similar to that of ancient greece, where there are like 200 really rich white assholes living forever and then everybody else is just slaves
seems too sad
Better to live four or five times as long. Fuck it, I want to live forever!!!
I'll meet new friends after you all die.
that's the spirit