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Great for the mice.

I don't understand this phrase "Turner said a “magic pill” that reverses ageing is several years away, partially due to the cost of the compound, which would be about $50,000 a day for a human." ?

$50,000 a day for a human ? What is the effect of a day of treatment ?

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50k at first, 5 bucks eventually, hopefully.

That number is almost certainly bullshit. It would be nice from a drug manufacturer's perspective to artificially limit supply so that they could get away with charging 50k a day for the stuff, but it seems insanely implausible that anything that comes out of a set of bioreactors could ever actually cost that.

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