>>5296184(sorry for this message first coming after like, 7 hours, i was sleeping.)
if i wanna elaborate further onto my own line of thinking, which makes it kind of stupid for me this tech isn't already widespread enough that even nobles in backwater areas should have it, which is a moot point, since as alpizar said, she comes from a core world and was pressed out here through military service requirements, is that, and try to follow my line of reasoning in this.
why wouldn't people have worked towards negligible senescence? if you don't know, negligible senescence is the idea, that if you understand how to treat the symptoms of aging enough, even if the body degrades, you can from the outside repair it quick enough to counter that degeneration. this isn't even talking about the ability to stop aging on a biological level, aka to stop said degeneration, but just the idea of fixing the problems fast enough that we just don't die.
negligible senescence has been the goal of medical sciences, ever since the birth of it. it's anti-biotics, it's fixing the broken bones which otherwise would've hampered you, the old liver being helped by meds to regulate itself as it's hormonal systems start breaking down. all of this has been for the purpose of trying to stop the things that kill us early. but as medical science has advanced, one of the biggest killers in the modern age, is: (drum roll) cancer!
cancer is the modern biggest medical problem, and is directly linked to our age, since it becomes more and more of a battle to try and fight against it as we become older and our genetic factories decay. which is why, even today, one of the biggest fields of medical science, is the removal of cancers, and the helping of patients with it.
and i know it's already a very long winded point im making, but im getting to it right now after the preface.
so, why did biomedical advances stop?
from when i was born, 2002, to today, cancer research has gone so far as to have several different treatments to many of the more common, and uncommon forms of cancer. just within soon two decades.
and after cancer, isnt aging itself the thing people would work on trying to cure? how about stupid bodily processes which could destroy our bodies after accidents? the ending of all genetic diseases which cripple us as we age/cripple us from birth.
in twenty years, we have not just made the sequencing of a humans genome possible, but also available for use on patients.
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