Fountain of Youth

[Itchybottom]

Leonard Hayflick is probably shaking his fist about this.

Might I remind you, resveratrol also worked on mice. Someone in Russia was working on a drug - SKQ1, and started touting similar results (but he is a charlatan, seriously) -- ameliorating chronic degenerative disease isn't going anywhere, any time soon. No telomerase, leading to over-short telomeres is easy to deal with the downstream problems (TERT/cancer) in mice if you engineer them from the ground up. Drug therapy now, gene therapy in future technologies ... but really to take any type of advancement from this type of "breakthrough" aside from over-hype in the press, you're going to have to start engineering humans like we have with the mice. I mean I guess that'd get rid of back hair if we bred humans hairless, which is a plus... but telomerase reverse transcriptase is serious business.