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| Topic | do you think a brain could be immortal, with proper care? |
| darkknight109 09/09/18 10:36:37 PM #15: | rogerskg1979 posted... You can't prevent aging no matter what you do. Not yet, but it's less impossible than you might think. Most of the symptoms of aging are due to the fact that as our cells divide, our telomeres degrade until eventually the telomeres are so degraded that the cell cannot divide any further. Notably, there are animals that are functionally ageless or have got around some of the limitations that humans run into. The aptly-named Immortal Jellyfish can continually return to its polyp (adolescent) form and basically never dies of old age, just by disease or predation. Similarly, some forms of invertebrates have enzymes that allow their telomeres to regenerate after cell division. This is an area of ongoing research and the idea of not aging is now considered a realistic possibility, albeit one that's well out of our reach at present. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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