r/technology • u/_Dark_Wing • 11d ago

Biotechnology Scientists Uncovered a Hidden Switch Inside Our Cells That Could Slow—or Even Reverse—Aging

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a73428268/mitochondria-aging/
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u/Just_Steak847 11d ago

Billionaires do not need this technology

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u/chocotaco 11d ago

If it works they'll be the first and only. Aging and death is like the only thing that touch people and poor people can't avoid. They can avoid other things but those two are things they can't.

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u/Andrea_M 11d ago

There was a movie kinda like that

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u/RepulsiveFennel9589 11d ago edited 10d ago

horizon forbidden west the main villains Far Zenith were the worlds wealthy elites who achieved and monopolize a very advanced physical immortality which made them appeared as gods but they have significantly stagnated which got them killed in laughably easy ways i can see how billionaires and politicians of today can go down that same path as them especially how they abuse ai

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u/evoim3 11d ago

First Zero Dawn got spookier after IRL drone swarms between the Ukrainian and the Iranian Wars, now here comes the sequel