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Nintil - Beyond lifespan as a metric in aging research: why reprogramming is promising

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Cool study, but no lifespan effects bro — Everyone, including myself until recently The aging field has historically focused on the twin aims of longer and healthier lives. As a trend, interventions that extend lifespan also tend to improve health whereas the opposite is not true. I suspect that some would even consider lifespan extension in some model organism as one of the necessary conditions to call something a promising aging drug. This heuristic has limits. When I wrote the Longevity FAQ I reviewed a number of interventions. When doing so, I was looking at various effects on health, and

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