"Scientists have developed a vaccine specific to a protein found in senescent (old) cells, for targeted elimination. Age or metabolic stress promotes accumulation of senescent cells in tissues that causes pathological aging 'phenotypes'.
15 ene 2024." ( https://en.juntendo.ac.jp/highlights/news/nid69 ).
Steve Jobs' Stanford address:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but some day not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Old age is not a disease. Let's not let them medicalise it.
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