AI-Based Research Suggests , Reversing Human Age , May Be 'Biologically Impossible'.
New research suggests that the process of aging
can potentially be slowed but not reversed.
'The Independent' reports that researchers used machine
learning and artificial intelligence to determine if
reversing the biological process of aging is possible.
'The Independent' reports that researchers used machine
learning and artificial intelligence to determine if
reversing the biological process of aging is possible.
According to a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed preprint
report in BioRxiv, the study focused on a key
component of aging known as "resilience.".
A factor called thermodynamic biological age
(tBA) reveals biological information
lost in an organism as it ages.
The team, which included Gero, a biotechnology firm based
in Singapore, claims that an increase in tBA drives an
"exponential acceleration" of chronic disease and death risks.
According to our measurements,
the number of people demonstrating
the loss of resilience increases in
the population exponentially and
doubles every eight years, exactly
as fast as the mortality rate doubles, Peter Fedichev, a co-author of the study and Chief of Gero, via 'The Independent'.
According to the team, the irreversible loss of
resiliency can more easily be understood as
a process driven by thermodynamic change.
The team's results suggest that the thermodynamic
nature of aging places serious constraints on the
possibility of developing age-reversing technology.
The team's results suggest that the thermodynamic
nature of aging places serious constraints on the
possibility of developing age-reversing technology.
Peter Fedichev, a co-author of the study and Chief of Gero, says
that while recent studies have demonstrated the potential
for age reversal in mice, humans pose unique challenges.
Peter Fedichev, a co-author of the study and Chief of Gero, says
that while recent studies have demonstrated the potential
for age reversal in mice, humans pose unique challenges.
Still, Fedichev suggests that the rate of aging
could be slowed by controlling the chaos that
occurs in molecular interactions within cells.