Reality test of Benjamin Button? The code to reverse aging is nearly unlocked by scientists

Over the coming decades, our perception of “GMO infants” may shift. But regardless of the modification, it won’t be required to go that far to rewire human cells. Probably only a simple vaccination will do the trick. In labs, genetically modifying mice is a standard procedure. To get the same outcome, though, should we apply the same procedure to people? When Chinese researcher He Jiankui “gived birth” to twins with altered genomes in 2018 — the first genetically altered offspring in history — with the intention of providing them HIV resistance, there was widespread outrage.

The Covid-19 pandemic made people aware that genetic material may be introduced into the human body through a vaccination, whether it can be RNA or DNA. The messenger RNA vaccines produced by BioNTech and Moderna do this, but many other “viral vectors” which are tiny, non-pathogenic DNA viruses frequently employed in molecular biology to transport one or more “genes of interest.” On scientific discovery, there is nothing to exclude these relevant genes from being the ones Yamanaka has identified. Wondering how future may look like. We would receive one or more injections of this viral vector that carries essential change components into us around the age of 30, when we are — unfortunately, only momentarily! — at the pinnacle of our mental and physical health. As these factors are set to remain silent until the promoter activates them, nothing would happen in our body at this time. Consequently, we would keep aging naturally. The years would not pass irreparably anymore! In fact, doxycycline would be recommended for a month’s worth of medication as soon as we began to experience their first negative effects. The youth treatment would start at that point, but only at that point. The vanishing of wrinkles, the quickening of wound healing, the regeneration of organs, the loss of the need for spectacles. “According to David Sinclair, “you would feel like a 35-year-old, like Benjamin Button. Then 30. Then 25. But since the statute of limitations would be suspended, unlike Benjamin Button, you wouldn’t go past that point. You wouldn’t have lost any of your knowledge, wisdom, or memories, but you would be around two decades younger physiologically, physically, and psychologically.” Naturally, if such a prospect materializes and, more importantly, if it spreads widely, it will transform significant portions of society and not be without its own challenging issues for a world with finite resources. But beyond a certain age, who among us wouldn’t like to relive their youth while still enjoying the “benefits of experience”?