Gene Editing & Longevity

CRISPR, longevity and living (much) longer. Anyone can read — verified members earn 20 MWB per post.

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Gene Editing & Longevity 1 month ago

CRISPR is leaving the lab faster than the ethics are keeping up

We now have approved CRISPR therapies for sickle cell. That's astonishing and barely made the news. Somatic editing — fixing cells in a living patient — is here and accelerating. Germline editing (heritable changes…

by Hannah Schmidt favorite 6 comment 2 visibility 534
Gene Editing & Longevity 1 month ago

Will we live forever? Longevity, honestly.

No, not "forever". But "longevity escape velocity" — adding more than a year of life expectancy per year of research — is a serious hypothesis, not just Valley fantasy. The credible near-term story is…

by Hannah Schmidt favorite 11 comment 1 visibility 378