Jayteau
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Commented on 2512
A full longevity solution probably will require substantial messing around with our own germ lines. Our genomes are terribly messy evolved hacks, with poorly understood 'metaprogramming' as Charlie puts it (the analogy to programming is interesting but imprecise: for a...
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Commented on 2512
...modified ribosomes that can assemble polypeptides using non-standard aminoacids (presumably coded for using four-base codons)... Biologist here: But that means re-writing every single protein in the genome, completely re-engineering the ribosome (and associated parts of the translation apparatus), a...