NewScientist reports:
“We are fairly confident at this point that TAT2 won’t enhance cancer development,” says Effros, although she cautions that further trials are needed to confirm this.Effros and de Grey believe that TAT2 could also find applications in other diseases and general ageing – though these have not yet been tested. Killer T-cells fight many other viruses besides HIV, and often enter into a state of anergy – where they stop dividing but won’t die – in elderly people. Since response to flu vaccine in elderly people seems to be correlated with having lots of killer T-cells with short telomeres, “One can envision perhaps improving the vaccine response and other anti-viral responses in the elderly by TAT2,” says Effros.

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meta-
adj.,pref. [from analytic philosophy] One level of
description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to
describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on
deliberate confusion between meta-levels.
-valent
suff. Having a specified valence or valences.
valence
1. Chemistry. The combining capacity of an atom or radical, determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, add, or share when it reacts with other atoms.
2. The ability of a substance to interact with another or to produce an effect.
3. Psychology. The degree of attraction or aversion that an individual feels toward a specific object or event.
4. Linguistics. The number of arguments that a lexical item, especially a verb, can combine with to make a syntactically well-formed sentence, often along with a description of the categories of those constituents.
5. The capacity of something to unite, react, or interact with something else.
an extropic state
of contemplating supersymmetric psychosocial symphonies of
human suffering, surmounting, senescence, and survival through
an incomprehensibly vast and escalating expansion of the extropian multiverse. speculative spelunking through assymetric archipelagos of mechapsychogenetic transhuman permutation, pain and poise, pretense and probity, prevarication and promise.
