• Digitalprimate@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I thought the central problem was telemore degeneration, not anything to do with stem cells per se.

    Happy to be corrected if wrong; I never worked anywhere near this category in my very long ago now pharma/biotech phase.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      That is part of it, which is what I alluded to in the degeneration of the dna. The stem cell thing too though. Our bodies aren’t programmed to live beyond a certain point. We learned about this in a Nature of Disease course at University.