Epigenetic reprogramming is very dangerous, but also very, very promising. If we can do this right, all kinds of regenerative medicine become possible: blind people seeing again, crippled people walking again, people with heart failures running again etc.
Altos Labs (recently co-financed by Bezos to the tune of some 3 billion dollars) has several scientists specializing in reprogramming, including a Spanish scientist who was able to reprogram living mice without causing any tumors.
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It sounds like this kind of technique is almost ready for use in surgery to minimize scarring.
Altos Labs (recently co-financed by Bezos to the tune of some 3 billion dollars) has several scientists specializing in reprogramming, including a Spanish scientist who was able to reprogram living mice without causing any tumors.
Doesn't the mice either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/08/65461/scientist-...
https://www.sciencealert.com/making-cells-revert-to-a-younge...