Worms key to immortality (well flatworms really...)


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Worms key to immortality (well flatworms really...)

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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.”
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(as long as it's not waterworms)
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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.”
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lol. Key here is that once your animal is immortal, evolution is over.
If you fart in the wilderness, and a bear eats you before you can smell it, does it matter if it makes an odor?
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gurensan wrote:
“The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”
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lol. Key here is that once your animal is immortal, evolution is over.
Nope, then we merge with the machines.
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Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.
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gurensan wrote:Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.
After that we become beings of thought inside a giant computer.
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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?
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Yep, you're all little particles inside my laptop.
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Freakzilla wrote:
gurensan wrote:Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.
After that we become beings of thought inside a giant computer.
Crap again. Now we're all subject to SOFTWARE upgrades. The worst kind ever.

I'm gonna get replaced by a microsoft product. yeesh.

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No animals were harmed during the making of this post. However, trillions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
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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? :wink:
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Freakzilla wrote:
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? :wink:
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