Aren’t you almost 60? Its almost time to slip into a speedo and head for Sarasota, no? Maybe stock up on birdfood to feed the pidgeons? Start planning your meals around all-you-can-eat buffets? Before you know it, dinner time will be 4:00 and bedtime 7:30.
There is so much that goes into manipulation of biological process. When growth is normal, everything in place and ceases as genetically engineered by nature, all goes well. When something happens and growth becomes uncontrolled, you can a tumor. Some of these news gloss over the details just for hype. If this was really that easy, it would have been done a long time ago. Am sure they are not the only one doing this research. Tokyo University had done something similar a while ago.