Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally. Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 23:32:15 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <88%CA.259440$IM7.14144@fx39.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:405588 sci.physics:626487 alt.privacy.anon-server:58369 comp.sys.mac.system:103418 alt.comp.os.windows-10:37915 alt.cellular-phone-tech:342 On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 23:19:27 +0100, Wolf K wrote: > On 2017-04-02 18:05, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:36:41 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:18:18 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:13:37 +0100, Jeff-Relf.Me <.> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally. >>>>> >>>>> Even now, at 57 years old, decades seem like minutes to me; >>>>> it's better to die at 80, having been a joy to yourself and others, >>>>> than to live to 90, making everyone miserable. >>>> >>>> Best would be to invent everlasting life. I thought stem cells were the start of this. >>> >>> Research isn't there yet to keep a complete human alive, but they do >>> have the 'immortal' cells of Henrietta Lacks to play around with. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks >>> http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134622044/tracing-the-immortal-cells-of-henrietta-lacks >>> In 1951, an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed >>> with terminal cervical cancer. She was treated at Johns Hopkins >>> University, where a doctor named George Gey snipped cells from her >>> cervix without telling her. Gey discovered that Lacks' cells could not >>> only be kept alive, but would also grow indefinitely. >> >> So to live forever, you need to get cancer? >> >> It must be possible to separate those two things. > > https://www.verywell.com/understanding-cellular-aging-2224234 So all we need is telemerase. -- The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.