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We Can’t Cure Cancer, But Can We Cure Old Age?

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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Almost a year ago, I wrote a post called The Blood Countess was right… sort of. It was spurred by news of the scientific discovery that young blood injected into older mice had rejuvenating effects on the old mice. Well, this research is still going on.

IFLS reports that Blocking “Pro-Aging” Molecule Could Reverse Memory Loss.

It would be interesting if transplanting young blood ever became reality for humans. In fact, it sounds like a good premise for a dystopic novel. There’s already a shortage of donated blood in hospitals. What if blood also became a luxury commodity? I can imagine a black market for blood. People could be kidnapped and/or killed for their blood. But maybe then there might be blood “donor” clinics where you could be paid for your blood. Certain lucky people of rare blood types might get paid more than people of more common blood types. If anyone wants to use this idea, go for it (although I wouldn’t mind a shout out. ;)

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I am excited about this as a scientific advancement though. I’m all for reducing the awfulness of aging. Prolonging life indefinitely would obviously have some severe consequences as well (not the least of which would be overpopulation), but if lifespans were around the same length but with less suffering? That sounds amazing.

What do you think, readers?

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The Blood Countess was right… sort of.

05 Monday May 2014

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Did you hear? A new study is showing that Swapping Young Blood for Old Reverses Aging. Essentially, scientists injected the blood of younger mice into elderly mice, and found that many age-related infirmities were reversed. Scientists have high hopes that this discovery could be used on humans to similar effect, especially when it comes to Alzheimer’s and heart enlargement.

We’ll have to recruit vampire cats to kill all the vampire mice that are sure to be bred through this program.

This is awesome, but didn’t someone already discover this? Ah yes, the Blood Countess. She was the most prolific female serial killer in history, and she bathed in the blood of virgins to keep herself young. Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed and four collaborators were convicted for the murder and torture of 80 different girls, but accusations ran as high as 650.

…Okay, so the staying young and even the bathing in virgin blood thing were never actually proven, but still. Does this sound like a coincidence to you? ;)

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