Taking a young person's plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging -- a therapy that's fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley -- has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and Drug Administration said.
The agency issued a safety alert on Tuesday about the infusion of plasma from young donors for the prevention of conditions such as aging or memory loss, or for the treatment of such conditions as dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease or postātraumatic stress disorder.
"There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product," the FDA said in a statement from Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, head of the agency's biologics center.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday February 21 2019, @06:35PM (3 children)
The movie deals with that obvious question. They discovered that unless the clones are sentient . . . blah blah . . . etc
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 22 2019, @04:06AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 22 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
The movies about the dystopian future will be more entertaining than the real dystopia when it arrives.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 23 2019, @12:57AM
And the real dystopia won't have those contrived situations either.