Drug May Repair DNA at Earliest Stages of Alzheimer’s – And it’s Already Passed Safety Trials
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/drug-may-repair-dna-at-earliest-stages-of-alzheimers-and-its-already-passed-safety-trials/
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Hope our descendants enjoy paying for life long drugs to prevent a number of diseases (fingers crossed anyway)
Replying to @dudeface@lemmy.world
Natural selection is dying and our genetics are getting corrupted
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Natural selection is dying at old age of 28 from a tooth infection or a broken foot.
Replying to @Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
Natural selection is driven by pressures that affect reproduction chances. Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
In nature it’s what cleans the genetics of a species of disease over time, preventing infinite accumulation of negative mutations
Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
That’s 1918 thinking.
Replying to @ryannathans@aussie.zone
Natural selection is driven by pressures that affect reproduction chances
Oh, like dying of old age at 28 of a broken foot or a fucked up tooth?
Like a genetic mutation that makes you sicker
In nature it’s what cleans the genetics of a species of disease over time, preventing infinite accumulation of negative mutations
If you think that’s all that natural selection is, you’re woefully uneducated on the topic. Because natural selection does in fact include external pressures like predators, disease, and accidents, along with genetics. Genetics can absolutely make a difference in making it to reproduction, but environmental factors are just as big of a factor, if not bigger, in making it that long.
Replying to @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
If you think that’s all that natural selection is
Are you just arguing for the sake of it now? What’s your point here? These replies are so incoherent and riddled with strawmen
At no point did I claim this to the exclusion of all other factors and you gotta be willfully misinterpreting to come to that conclusion