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Ada Nguyen's personal blog at adanguyenx.com covers health and science. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Partial reprogramming deep dive: the good, bad, and partially unresolved”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ada Nguyen's review of partial reprogramming, the approach to reversing cellular aging. Commenters value it as an overview of the current state of cellular rejuvenation and longevity.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Partial reprogramming deep dive: the good, bad, and partially unresolved
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-31
  2. Longevity Biotech Landscape
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. For anyone interested in learning more about partial reprogramming, I recently wrote a review article on the current state of the art: https://www.adanguyenx.com/blog/partial-reprogramming In short, we're still far away from using it in humans (10+ years). Currently, all companies working on this are in pre-clinical stage, with turn.bio as the closest, expecting to go into clinical trials late this year. This tech i…

    Comment linking /blog/partial-reprogramming

    on “Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial”
  2. Submitted Partial reprogramming deep dive: the good, bad, and partially unresolved as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  3. Believe this was posted on hn before, but this article is in-depth on the current state https://www.adanguyenx.com/blog/partial-reprogramming

    Comment linking /blog/partial-reprogramming

    on “In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)”
  4. Submitted Partial reprogramming deep dive: the good, bad, and partially unresolved as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. data2data · 2022-11-23Recommends
    https://www.adanguyenx.com/blog/partial-reprogramming I found this to be an excellent overview of cellular rejuvenation/longevity. Does a good job of explaining the current state of the field.

    Comment linking /blog/partial-reprogramming

    on “Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?”
  6. Submitted Longevity Biotech Landscape as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Longevity Biotech Landscape as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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