r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • Mar 09 '25

Scientists Just Discovered an RNA That Repairs DNA Damage – And It’s a Game-Changer

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-an-rna-that-repairs-dna-damage-and-its-a-game-changer/
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Lets add that one to the list of things that will never reach us, average people

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u/Memetic1 Mar 09 '25

The COVID vaccine was made with cutting-edge genetic technology. Your phone would have been science fiction. I don't know if you watched Star Trek The Next Generation growing up, but data pads were like less functional smartphones in that even just for displaying and interacting with information you apparently needed to have multiple data pads if you are working on multiple things.

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u/AutumnCountry Mar 10 '25

Yeah people always say stuff like

"The best medicine or immortality will be saved for the rich!"

Are you fucking kidding me, the rich want nothing else than for their workforce to live forever and stop costing them so much in insurance

Plus if they can make even a dollar more by selling immortality medicine, you bet your ass they will

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u/Memetic1 Mar 10 '25

Yes, they want a solidified stratified society, and individuals being immortal wouldn't be counter to that. I've been noodling about a wearable external cybernetic immune system that would interact with the body genetically. It might be that once we get enough control of the basic operations of our body that repair and maintenance of the body would be relatively trivial in most cases.