Aging

Topic

• Julia B. on the limitations of animal models
  1 in 10 successful mouse cancer interventions makes it; none of the 300+ in Alzheimer’s has proven effective in humans
• José Luis Ricón on noise and/or programmed aging as root causes of aging
  “Maybe cells don’t replicate perfectly; maybe the epigenome’s lost somehow. And second, a (potentially) programmed part”
• José Luis Ricón on death and the Stockholm syndrome
  Or, how people can bend reality and think that a bad thing may be actually good