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Post by SBKKupan on Dec 2, 2004 8:44:00 GMT -5
hmmm, interesting concept - but you cant kill him, hes surrounded by guards, and cops would get you. You only have everlasting life - not immortality...
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Post by Obsidian Samurai on Dec 18, 2004 15:44:07 GMT -5
I can [shadow=red,left,300]guarantee[/shadow]we won't be finding a way to live for eternity
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Post by thezach on Dec 21, 2004 17:35:40 GMT -5
i dun care i personally don't know what will happen
what ever happens happens and i'm cool wit it
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Post by Dragon on Dec 28, 2004 2:01:39 GMT -5
Well, at the cellular level, there are smaggagies called Telomeres at the end of the chromomsomes. Think of them like caps. Aging is partly on celular devidsion. Telomeres keep track of how many times a cell devides, and each time they devide, the Telomeres get shorter, and have a pre-set length they shorten to. When they can't devide, they just age out and die. But thats just part of it.
Genes that controll aging are located near the Telomeres and appear to be inactive in young cells. When Telomeres shorten, they activate. When they are shorter, they are also more vunerable to genetic damage/disorders.
Still with me? (Am getting a head-ache just writing this)
It seems that through the activity of an enzyme known as telomerase, the youth-preserving activity of the telomeres can be extended.
But heres the catch. While it can convey a unlimited capacity to the human cell to replicate (Retain youth essentialy), its also active in 90% of cancer cells. So close, yet so far.
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