I think I solved immortality and we currently have all of the technology and I need people who know what they’re talking about to tell me I’m wrong and why.

Alright, so here’s what I’m thinking. Mainly two points: aging and cancer. As I understand it, we age due to our telemere buffer shortening. Which, as I understand it, is like a safety buffer to the DNA that is the real meat and potatoes of who we are. And cancer, as I understand it, is when a cell whose dna that has been damaged undergoes mitosis and the replicated dna either is out of the telemere buffer and we are now losing parts that make the human body function. Or the dna being replicated was damaged by UV light or other means and no longer expresses necessary genes for proteins, structure, or whatever.

So that’s what I understand aging and cancer to be at a biological level. Now, we’ve been using CRISPER for years, which as I understand it, finds specified sequences of DNA and replaces them with a specified sequence. As I read earlier this year that the company Colossus made advancements where we can edit multiple genes at once.

My question is: With this technology, don’t we have access to cures for at least some types of cancer? And at least some causes of aging? I feel like it is “relatively” easy with technologies we already use with a high degree of accuracy. Why can’t we, say, create a virus carrier to match our DNA against itself and add telemere’s to the ends of our DNA strands to combat aging and decay?

If I’m clearly not understanding a key concept in biology, please enlighten me. If the technology is way too immature, what parts are we missing. I’m so curious, because as I understand it, we have all the pieces and I can’t understand why we’re not using them other than nefarious reasons like Big Pharma or other trust issues

Thank you in advance for kind responses 🫶🏼

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    cancer has very chaotic mechanisms to stay immortal, most of its not understood. one of the things they do is global hypermethylation and de-methylation of genes. also cancer can have sorther telomeres because they divide so often. thier chromosones are so unstable, they sometimes break, and rejoin haphazardly, sometimes forming rings in some cases. metabolic wise they do alot of unnatural things, like induce surrouding tissue to give it neutrients, or induce a hypoxic factor. they can do something like the reverse warbug effect. if you get into the niche of different type of cancers, you see they all dont behave the same way, thats why theres no treat-all medication for it(some are gene related cancer solely, and some others may not.