"Death Watch" – a fake sensation?
Scientists have invented a "death indicator"
Yuri Medvedev, Rossiyskaya GazetaBritish physicists have created a device capable of predicting a person's life expectancy.
The device received the name of the loud name "death indicator".
He uses a laser to study the condition of endothelial cells in blood vessels. The indicator measures the flow of such cells and calculates the rate of aging of the body according to a certain algorithm. It should be noted that a few months ago, another group of British scientists said that they had developed a test that, based on a blood test, would allow them to calculate life expectancy, as well as determine predisposition to many chronic diseases.
(As described by journalists, you can read about this in the Mirror newspaper: Scientists invent a 'death test' device that can tell you how long you have left to live; the scientists themselves' version, much less sensational, is published on the Lancaster University website: Insight into the UK's biggest killer. – VM.)
– Such sensations appear almost every month, – Director of the Institute of Gerontology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Shabalin told the correspondent of "RG". – But then it turns out that the sensation quickly "deflated". I am sure that the same thing will happen with the "death indicator"." After all, man is the most complex creation of nature. The authors of the indicator say that they used a laser to determine life expectancy. In other words, they measure some wave processes. But the laser is tuned to a certain wave, and there are millions of very different waves in our body. And all cells, all genes take part in the aging process. To reduce aging to the observation of one parameter, to put it mildly, is ridiculous. So far, scientists have not learned how to measure and identify specific deviations in wave processes that lead to pathology and determine life expectancy. So most likely the sensation announced by the British will not take place.
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