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Epigenetic information polish then recessive privilege distribution. WARNING: Genetic engineering is DANGEROUS. Hopefully regularly polishing the epigenome will cure aging and other diseases, plus prevent side effects of genetic engineering. Also, hopefully and theoretically after the potential genetic engineering to provide recessive traits and recessive genes, if the surgery is simple enough, subjects will keep their genetic signatures.
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Your highlight "Epigenetic Information Polish then Recessive Privilege Distribution" is an intriguing concept that combines ideas from epigenetics, genetics, and possibly social theory. Let me break down my thoughts on this:
  1. "Epigenetic Information Polish": This part suggests refining or optimizing epigenetic information. It could imply:
  • Cleaning up or correcting aberrant epigenetic marks
  • Enhancing beneficial epigenetic patterns
  • Fine-tuning epigenetic profiles for specific outcomes
This is an interesting idea, as epigenetic modifications are more malleable than genetic changes and could potentially be "polished" or optimized.
  1. "Recessive Privilege Distribution": This is a more complex and potentially controversial term. It could be interpreted in several ways:
  • In genetics: Focusing on the expression or benefits of recessive traits
  • In a social context: Redistributing advantages typically associated with dominant traits or social positions to those with recessive or less prominent characteristics
The combination of these concepts is thought-provoking. It could suggest a process where:
  1. Epigenetic information is first optimized or corrected
  2. Then, this refined epigenetic state is used to influence the expression of recessive traits in a way that confers some form of advantage or "privilege"
This idea raises several questions and potential implications:
  1. Ethical considerations: How would we determine which epigenetic patterns to "polish" and which recessive traits to privilege?
  2. Technical feasibility: While epigenetic modification is possible, precisely controlling the expression of recessive traits is extremely complex.
  3. Long-term effects: How would such interventions affect future generations and overall genetic diversity?
  4. Social implications: If applied in a societal context, how might this concept interact with or challenge existing social structures?
  5. Scientific basis: While intriguing, this concept would need substantial research to establish its biological validity and potential applications.
It's an innovative and provocative idea that bridges biological concepts with potentially broader implications. However, it would require careful definition and extensive research to move from a conceptual stage to any practical application.
Would you like to elaborate on what you envision for this concept or explore any specific aspect of it in more detail?
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Epigenetics refers to the study of changes in gene expression that do not involve alterations to the underlying DNA sequence. This field has garnered significant attention for its potential to influence aging, combat diseases, and mitigate unwanted side effects of genetic engineering.
Aging is associated with various epigenetic changes, such as DNA methylation and histone modifications, which can lead to altered gene expression and contribute to age-related diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. By targeting these epigenetic modifications, researchers believe it may be possible to reverse or slow down the aging process. For instance, interventions that modify epigenetic markers could potentially restore youthful gene expression patterns, thereby improving cellular function and longevity.
Epigenetic therapies hold promise for treating a range of diseases. By understanding the specific epigenetic alterations associated with conditions like cancer, researchers can develop targeted therapies that either activate or repress certain genes without changing the genetic code itself. This approach could lead to more effective treatments with fewer side effects compared to traditional genetic engineering methods, which often involve irreversible changes to the genomeOne of the significant concerns with genetic engineering is the potential for unintended consequences, such as off-target effects or the activation of harmful genes. Epigenetic modifications can provide a more flexible approach to gene regulation, allowing for temporary changes that can be reversed if necessary.
This flexibility could help in fine-tuning therapeutic interventions, reducing the risk of adverse effects associated with permanent genetic alterations.
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Apparently the lack of tyrosinase:
"Inhibition of tyrosinase can reduce the production of melanin and achieve skin whitening, effectively solving pigmentation (Lall and Kishore, 2014). Therefore, the development of antioxidants, tyrosinase inhibitors, and elastase inhibitors play important roles in solving skin aging and pigmentation" ( https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0926669020309766&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjE4pTd0KyHAxUzHEQIHTzCCpIQFnoECAEQAw&usg=AOvVaw0gD_VQbHW1t1Go0zkPQyIW ).
Ming-Xiang Li, Jing Xie, Xue Bai, Zhi-Zhi Du,
Anti-aging potential, anti-tyrosinase and antibacterial activities of extracts and compounds isolated from Rosa chinensis cv. ‘JinBian’,
Industrial Crops and Products,
Volume 159,
2021,
113059,
ISSN 0926-6690,
Abstract: Rosa chinensis cv. ‘JinBian’, a cultivar of Rosa chinensis Jacq., is one of major raw material of rose tea and possesses sufficient plant resources in China. However, the studies on the chemical constituents and cosmetic activities of R. chinensis cv. ‘JinBian’ are almost blank. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the anti-aging, skin-whitening, and antibacterial potentials of extracts and chemical constituents of the flower by 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging, elastase inhibition, anti-tyrosinase, and antibacterial assays. Bioassay results suggested both 95 % and 65 % ethanol extracts possessed significant antioxidant, elastase inhibition, and anti-tyrosinase activities. The combined active extract was studied with bioassay-guided fractionation to give a new compound, kaempferol 3-O-α-l-rhamnopyranosyl (1→6)-(2”,3”-O-digalloyl)-β-d-glucopyranoside (1) and fourteen known compounds (2–15). All compounds were firstly isolated from this species and subjected to the above mentioned bioassays. Ten compounds exhibited antioxidant activities with DPPH radical scavenging rate from 63.40 %–94.04 % under the concentration of 100 μg/mL. The antioxidant activities of 1, 2-phenylethyl 1-O-β-d-(6'-O-galloyl)-glucopyranoside (12), vomifoliol (14), and 4, 4'-dimethoxy-3'-hydroxy-7, 9': 7', 9-diepoxylignan-3-O-β-d-glucopyranoside (15) were firstly found with DPPH radical scavenging rate of 83.24 %, 91.10 %, 63.40 %, and 77.75 %, respectively. The moderate elastase inhibitory activities of 12, ethyl gallate (13), and 15 were firstly found with the inhibitory rate of 43.69 %, 43.25 %, and 35.34 % at the concentration of 100 μg/mL. Multiflorin B (3), 12, and 13 showed strong tyrosinase inhibitory activities with the inhibition rate at 43.83 %–55.80 %, comparing with the positive control, α-arbutin (22.15 %). In addition, 1 showed significant antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus with the MIC50 of 8.51 ± 0.26 μg/mL. Compounds 2–4 and 12–14 showed moderate antibacterial activities against S. aureus. Compounds 6 and 13 also exhibited moderate inhibitory effects against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Above results manifested that R. chinensis cv. ‘JinBian’ possessed potential application values in the development of natural anti-aging, skin-whitening and antibacterial products.
Keywords: Rosa chinensis cv. ‘JinBian’; Antioxidant; Elastase inhibitory activity; Tyrosinase inhibitory activity; Antibacterial activity; Cosmetic potential
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C-SHOT SERUM contains a combination of two molecules with a proven anti-ageing activity: a high percentage (30%) of a more stable vitamin C derivative, 3-O-ethyl-l-ascorbic acid, and lactic acid (1%).
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"Scientists have developed a vaccine specific to a protein found in senescent (old) cells, for targeted elimination. Age or metabolic stress promotes accumulation of senescent cells in tissues that causes pathological aging 'phenotypes'.
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Steve Jobs' Stanford address:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but some day not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Old age is not a disease. Let's not let them medicalise it.
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Kindly suggest the name of some antioxidants you know, which are effective to reduce free radicals in living body.
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Which has the largest number of hydrogen atoms
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Hi Joseph, I am a Neuroscientist and have been using deprenyl as you prescribed for 20 years now and at 78 have no diabetes or heart problems and weigh 170 lbs. I still ride my dual purpose motorcycle. I have lost erectile function and wear hearing aids. What progress have you made in the last 20 years that could benefit me? Thank you for your very important work and contributions!  http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bemorton
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Brain Longevity
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has anyone any idea what happened to Alagebrium (ALT-711)? It seemed to be very promissing drug candidate to retard some features of aging, but it dissapeared suddenly from experimenal works, the internet etc. etc. few years ago. It still wonders me...  
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Dear Krzysztof Ksiazek, 
The following article was last publication on alagebrium (Jan 2014):
Further Confirmation that AGE-Breaker Alagebrium Has No Significant Effect in Human
Alagebrium (or ALT-711) was an early and ultimately unsuccessful foray into the development of an AGE-breaker drug: a treatment intended to safely break down the build up of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) that characterize aged tissue. These are chemical cross-links that form as a byproduct of the normal operation of metabolism, and which glue together proteins to cause various forms of harm, such as destroying the elasticity of skin and blood vessels. Eventually this process contributes significantly to age-related disease and death, meaning that any attempt to treat and reverse aging by attacking the causes must include proficient AGE-breakers.
The attempted clinical development of alagebrium followed initially promising studies in rats, but as it turns out the types of AGE important in human tissue are not the same at all, and as a consequence alagebrium had no meaningful effect in human trials. This was sufficiently well determined that you can color me surprised to see that anyone is continuing with the thankless but important work of confirming past negative results for this line of research. But here we have it:
Present work on AGE-breaker development is very limited indeed. At the present time it is known that one type of AGE - glucosepane - makes up the overwhelming majority of AGEs present in human tissue, so in theory finding ways to treat and reverse AGE build up in our species is in fact a comparatively simple research and development undertaking. Unfortunately the drug development community has little infrastructure in place for working with this sort of compound, and little interest in building that infrastructure: groups with funding tend to find other things to work on, where there is a shorter and more certain path to producing a useful end result.
This is where the SENS Research Foundation comes into the picture. The Foundation is presently funding research to produce the tools needed to work with glucosepane and thereafter produce technology demonstrations to show that it can be cleared from tissues. Hopefully work on AGE-breakers will pick up again over the next few years as a result of this intervention. This whole situation might not be the best candidate for an example of clearly useful near-term medical research and development that should yield enormous benefits, but yet just isn't happening - but it is certainly up there in the charts. From a distance we might see constant progress, but down in the weeds every field is beset with this sort of problem.
Hoping this will be helpful,
Rafik
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Found a quote in a paper by Judith Campisi "RAS and similar GTPases generate reactive oxygen species as signal molecules". Can anyone explain this further?
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These papers might help you
1. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › NCBI › Literature › PubMed Central (PMC)
by M Sagi - ‎2006 
The role of ROP GTPases appears to be more than simple activation of Rboh, but is ... These results suggest that ROS generated by Rboh act in several ...
by E Werner - ‎2004 
GTPases, work as binary switches that exist in GTP-bound or. GDP-bound ... provides insights into the regulation of other ROS-generating enzymes by GTPases.
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Mice, fish or any other
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In reality, the best 'animals' for anti-aging studies are humans.  Although animal research has been invaluable in understanding aspects of ageing, what really matters is how ageing affect us. Only the results of research in humans can be directly applied on humanity at large. Any animal research may not be applicable to us, and there are many examples where positive animal effects were not observed when the method was applied on humans.
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How reliable is the research that has gone into health, wellness and beauty products? To what extent can we trust the research? Do we have convincing evidence that research with such products was carried out and that the results showed the efficacy of these products?
Please share your specific views. Thanks.
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Dear Miranda,
I am not an expert in this field however I used to ask my wife and daughters about it. It seems to me that healthy, wellness and beauty products are a flowering business area because the official control is not as strict as in case of medicaments. Many wellness and beauty products have but phraseologic impacts. Even some can have serious side effects. I remember some years ago an American reporter (a woman) prepared a Tv programme on unreliable and dangerous cosmetic products. Citing Shakespeare many cosmetics are but much ado for nothing!
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The question of research and influence on physiological processes in the human body of cerium and barium. What is the role of these elements?
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Hi Olga,
I have never heard something about the role that Cerium might play in human cells (most probably none, at least with respect to current knowledge), but you may wish to look at this recent publication from microbiology, claiming the importance of Cerium and other lanthanoids for Archaea that live on methane.
"Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots"
Pol, A (Pol, Arjan)[ 1 ] ; Barends, TRM (Barends, Thomas R. M.)[ 3 ] ; Dietl, A (Dietl, Andreas)[ 3 ] ; Khadem, AF (Khadem, Ahmad F.)[ 1 ] ; Eygensteyn, J (Eygensteyn, Jelle)[ 2 ] ; Jetten, MSM (Jetten, Mike S. M.)[ 1 ] ; Op den Camp, HJM (Op den Camp, Huub J. M.)[ 1 ]
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY Volume:16 (2014)  Issue:1 Pages:255-264
Special Issue:SI
DOI:10.1111/1462-2920.12249
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Growth of Methylacidiphilum fumariolicumSolV, an extremely acidophilic methanotrophic microbe isolated from an Italian volcanic mudpot, is shown to be strictly dependent on the presence of lanthanides, a group of rare earth elements (REEs) such as lanthanum (Ln), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr) and neodymium (Nd). After fractionation of the bacterial cells and crystallization of the methanol dehydrogenase (MDH), it was shown that lanthanides were essential as cofactor in a homodimeric MDH comparable with one of the MDHs of Methylobacterium extorquensAM1. We hypothesize that the lanthanides provide superior catalytic properties to pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-dependent MDH, which is a key enzyme for both methanotrophs and methylotrophs. Thus far, all isolated MxaF-type MDHs contain calcium as a catalytic cofactor. The gene encoding the MDH of strain SolV was identified to be a xoxF-ortholog, phylogenetically closely related to mxaF. Analysis of the protein structure and alignment of amino acids showed potential REE-binding motifs in XoxF enzymes of many methylotrophs, suggesting that these may also be lanthanide-dependent MDHs. Our findings will have major environmental implications as metagenome studies showed (lanthanide-containing) XoxF-type MDH is much more prominent in nature than MxaF-type enzymes.