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PhilosophusFuturum t1_j3b7uqe wrote

In a few of his presentation; Dr. Sinclair noted some neuroregeneration in his Yamanaka reprogramming research. Plus; we can expect an explosion of connectome research this decade, and we will likely have a full mouse connectome by 2030. The Human Connectome is the holy grail of neuroscience, and we could have that feasibly by 2050.

Nothing in the immediate future though. Everything I mentioned is two decades off at least.

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94746382926 OP t1_j3b9fw6 wrote

That's good to hear but also kind of a bummer. But it's to be expected though I guess. Shit ain't easy and even two or 3 decades would be a crazy achievement.

Personally I'm hoping ISRIB which is being licensed to Calico will work and be a nice stopgap measure if not a complete cure. Seems very promising although it's still in animal trials as far as I know.

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PhilosophusFuturum t1_j3b9w8c wrote

Don’t get your hopes up about animal trials. Only about 3% of medicines go from passing animal trials to doctor’s desktop. And that’s probably a high number.

I do believe that technological process is indeed accelerating quite a lot. We need to reform our institutions to be able to integrate progress into society. If we do that with our medical institutions we could see actual cures for so many disorders released way sooner.

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94746382926 OP t1_j3bcbik wrote

Yeah ik translation rates are pretty low. Didn't realize it was that low though lol.

Now that I think about it ISRIB may be in phase 1 now but not sure how that's going.

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mattsowa t1_j3dhvj5 wrote

Sorry to say, but OP don't listen to people guesstimating the years of breakthroughs. It has been shown time and time again such guesstimates were often very wrong throughout history.

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