Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/drug-may-repair-dna-at-earliest-stages-of-alzheimers-and-its-already-passed-safety-trials/Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Hope our descendants enjoy paying for life long drugs to prevent a number of diseases (fingers crossed anyway)
Replying to @dudeface@lemmy.world
Trump killed over 80% of all Alzheimer’s research, as well as cancer.
Replying to @SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Ah, if only Alzheimer’s or cancer would kill him for a change.
Replying to @Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
To be fair, Alzheimer’s won’t kill the body, only the mind. And listening to the gibbering fuck talk, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that we’re watching it happen in real time. Which is cool and good.
Replying to @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
Not sure there’s much to kill there…
Replying to @dudeface@lemmy.world
If you’ve ever had someone close to you develop alzheimers, especially family where it was then more likely that you would develop it, you would have no problem paying for drugs to prevent it for life. It’s probably the cruelest thing that can happen to a person in life.
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
Two of my grandparents had it, I’ll probably get it if I last that long
Replying to @dudeface@lemmy.world
And would you take a tablet a day to prevent it? As someone in roughly the same situation as you, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
Replying to @GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
Maybe, if the side-effects are close to nonexistent and I can afford it.
Replying to @dudeface@lemmy.world
Natural selection is dying and our genetics are getting corrupted
It’s not dying, we just reached the top of the food chain.
Then we got all sciency and improved health and quality of life at advanced age. And improved survival rates at birth/youth.
Now we practice capital darwinism in order to keep our numbers in check. We make sure the poor have worse access to healthcare and quality diets. We let generations of institutionalized racism decide who has to be poor.
And then…we changed the world. If your great-great-grandma were transported to the modern dlay at age 25, she wouldn’t survive. The world is completely foreign to everything humanity has ever known.
No wonder we have obesity epidemics in a world where addictive calorie-dense and nuttitionally-void food is readily available and cheaper than anything that grows out of the ground.
No wonder we have ADHD and Autism when there’s an overabundance of stimuli constantly surrounding us.
Replying to @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
We’ve always have ADHD and autism. We just called it something else.
Make a list of world’s best scientists in history, most would be labelled autistic today.
That’s not true, though. There’s nothing to corrupt. The human genome is 41% fruit fly, 60% banana and 8% virus simultaneously. Hugh Mann Georg, whose genome is 131 billion percent human is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Plus natural selection isn’t solely random by nature, nor is it independent of humans. It doesn’t magically go away, even with sci-fi gene technology, since people would naturally select genes that they find attractive, make them superhuman, or won’t give them some nasty disease. Humans deciding that they want a gene that gives them breasts all-year round because they find them attractive is no different to humans selecting for the trait over generations, for much the same reason.
Replying to @T156@lemmy.world
Humans deciding that they want a gene that gives them breasts all-year round
WTF…gibberish and apparently you have no idea how breasts work. They aren’t crops.
Replying to @T156@lemmy.world
The human genome is 41% fruit fly, 60% banana and 8% virus simultaneously
read those links. That’s not even close to true.
Just because we don’t get eaten by leopards much anymore doesn’t mean selection isn’t happening.
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Natural selection is dying at old age of 28 from a tooth infection or a broken foot.
Replying to @Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
Natural selection is driven by pressures that affect reproduction chances. Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
In nature it’s what cleans the genetics of a species of disease over time, preventing infinite accumulation of negative mutations
Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
That’s 1918 thinking.
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Natural selection is driven by pressures that affect reproduction chances
Oh, like dying of old age at 28 of a broken foot or a fucked up tooth?
Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
In nature it’s what cleans the genetics of a species of disease over time, preventing infinite accumulation of negative mutations
If you think that’s all that natural selection is, you’re woefully uneducated on the topic. Because natural selection does in fact include external pressures like predators, disease, and accidents, along with genetics. Genetics can absolutely make a difference in making it to reproduction, but environmental factors are just as big of a factor, if not bigger, in making it that long.
Replying to @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
If you think that’s all that natural selection is
Are you just arguing for the sake of it now? What’s your point here? These replies are so incoherent and riddled with strawmen
At no point did I claim this to the exclusion of all other factors and you gotta be willfully misinterpreting to come to that conclusion
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
And how often do you think people used to die of Alzheimer’s before reproducing?
Diseases of old age are irrelevant to natural selection