British scientists believe they may have identified how humans could potentially live forever - and it’s all about flatworms
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The research team studied how the flatworms manage to replace aged or damaged tissues and cells in a bid to understand what drives their longevity.
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Key to a flatworm’s immortality lays in its telomeres – tiny sections of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes, protecting them from damage and the loss of cell functions linked to ageing.
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“The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”
DuneFishUK wrote:Aren't we already be part of an ultra-detailed physics simulation being run by a research lab to test theories about how the universe formed?
As long as the resolution is finer than we can detect, what's the difference?
Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~Pink Snowman
DuneFishUK wrote:Aren't we already be part of an ultra-detailed physics simulation being run by a research lab to test theories about how the universe formed?
As long as the resolution is finer than we can detect, what's the difference?
Ockham's Razor?
Ah English, the language where pretty much any word can have any meaning! - A Thing of Eternity