Horray, the rich will live forever! All hail our immortal overlords!

So aging will become a sign of poverty?

Couldn’t you wait until Mitch Mconnell died until you released this? I’d rather not him be in the senate forever.

Full text of actual paper: https://www.aging-us.com/full/204896

Tldr; seems like decent science and the compounds used are fairly ordinary ones for the most part. Note however this is all in vitro so far and it might be a challenge to deliver the same chemicals in the same concentrations to all the senescent cells of the body.

Prepare to see these ingredients added in insignificant amounts to expensive skin creams before the year is out, whether they can penetrate the epidermis or not

Even if for the rich, this would be good news. The rich and powerful will stop ignoring things like distant climate related deadlines, if they think they'll be alive to feel their effects.

Ahh, immortal super-rich people whose views get more and more conservative as they age forever... What an exciting future to look forward to!

“As long as men die. Liberty will never fail.”

The sci-fi type implications of this would be astounding. We would see a rapidly increasing global population with high natural resource use. On a philosophical level, is living forever a blessing or a curse?

Without paywall: https://archive.is/QX1w7

Why does the woman in the first photo appear to be molding?

Biochemist here, It's almost certainly an overhyped study. The operative term being used here is "potentially" full body rejuvenation is possible. It doesn't address issues such as administration of the therapy in tissues with virtually no turnover rate, including cardiac tissue, skeletal muscle, and nervous tissue. You cannot renew something that the body doesn't naturally replace via the cell cycle.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953

The comments be like: I didn’t read the article, here my pissed off reaction calling for 1984

Ugh. I barely want to live my whole life on this planet with the ways it is going.. let alone reverse back into my 20s with no actual "new game+"

Before people lose their minds, this research, while interesting, is very far from true aging reversal. At most it could be one aspect of it.

Heh, science journalism.

Why a cure for ageing would benefit everyone and not solely the ultra wealthy

If you put aside ethical and humanitarian reasons for making a cure for ageing widely available, there is still economic considerations, i.e. if you are a government you will be presented with a choice between:

Do I pay to treat people for ageing, even though the treatment might initially be expensive, or do I let them age without intervention?

The former option might actually be significantly cheaper because people in an advanced state of ageing cost more money. They have more diseases, since many diseases are age related such as dementia, cancer and cardiac disease, and need more healthcare and also can't work anymore.

If instead, the government pays for rejuvenation treatment they save on all the other healthcare costs and their people don't have to stop being productive.

So perhaps in the future when a cure for ageing is actually developed it will be made available for everyone rich and poor alike

Full journal article here

https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text

"Thus, rejuvenation by age reversal can be achieved, not only by genetic, but also chemical means."

-- Journal article abstract