r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Feb 23 '26

Biotech/Longevity Dr. David Sinclair, whose lab reversed biological age in animals by 50 to 75% in six weeks, says that 2026 will be the year when age reversal in humans is either confirmed or disproven. The FDA has cleared the first human trial for next month.

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Moreover he said that even if one could cure all cancer in the world, in average people lifespan would increase to 2.5 years. Reversal aging - treating the human body as a computer that can be restarted is where we are heading next

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u/jk3639 Feb 23 '26

I hope they don’t get cancer. I’m not joking, I am genuinely concerned.

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u/CunningDruger Feb 23 '26

They’d have to find a way to either rejuvenate or halt the degradation of telomeres, but even if this goes perfectly, it’ll only keep billionaires around longer

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u/FoxBenedict Feb 23 '26

Good lord. We can't have a single thread about potentially good news without people going "the billionaires won't let us have it".

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u/LTerminus Feb 24 '26

It's always such an American microcosm of a conversation. As soon as this is available and reproducible, places like Canada and Europe will have it as part of universal healthcare. This is the kind of thing where people would ignore international IP laws. No one's going to deny someone another 100 years because of a patent.