<story><title>Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/12/national/science-health/aging-vaccine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majkinetor</author><text>You forgot tiny detail that they live in prison for entire life eating equivalent of Mc Donalds or worse.</text></item><item><author>netizen-936824</author><text>Really? Because they get experimented on and then slaughtered by the thousands</text></item><item><author>dbcurtis</author><text>Gotta admit though, there has never been a better time to be a mouse.</text></item><item><author>pezzana</author><text>&amp;gt; The team, including Juntendo University professor Toru Minamino, confirmed that mice administered with the vaccine showed decreases in the zombie cells, medically known as senescent cells, and in areas affected by arterial stiffening.&lt;p&gt;By now this has become a trope. &amp;quot;Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}&amp;quot; ... in mice.&lt;p&gt;Mouse models of human disease are very limited in their predictive ability. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of research that needs to follow this before there&amp;#x27;s even a hope of a human trial, let alone vaccine. And the failure rate for treatments at the mouse stage is quite high.&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments on this thread treat this research paper as the announcement of an an imminent anti-aging vaccine. It&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>delecti</author><text>Unless they&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;participants&amp;quot; in an experiment related to McDonald&amp;#x27;s, it&amp;#x27;s probably closer to say they spend their life eating the equivalent of Soylent.&lt;p&gt;Though 1&amp;#x2F;3 of my meals are Soylent, so even that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem entirely terrible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/12/national/science-health/aging-vaccine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>majkinetor</author><text>You forgot tiny detail that they live in prison for entire life eating equivalent of Mc Donalds or worse.</text></item><item><author>netizen-936824</author><text>Really? Because they get experimented on and then slaughtered by the thousands</text></item><item><author>dbcurtis</author><text>Gotta admit though, there has never been a better time to be a mouse.</text></item><item><author>pezzana</author><text>&amp;gt; The team, including Juntendo University professor Toru Minamino, confirmed that mice administered with the vaccine showed decreases in the zombie cells, medically known as senescent cells, and in areas affected by arterial stiffening.&lt;p&gt;By now this has become a trope. &amp;quot;Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}&amp;quot; ... in mice.&lt;p&gt;Mouse models of human disease are very limited in their predictive ability. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of research that needs to follow this before there&amp;#x27;s even a hope of a human trial, let alone vaccine. And the failure rate for treatments at the mouse stage is quite high.&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments on this thread treat this research paper as the announcement of an an imminent anti-aging vaccine. It&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwamon</author><text>Just knowing I&amp;#x27;d have guaranteed food and housing would make my life less miserable than it is now. Oh, and I love McDonald&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>