Originally posted by Surturno, really this is in many ways about extending the telomere which sends a signal as to how a cell should behave. Think of a telomere as a fuse. Every cell division it burns down, this seems to be more than a clock or cosmetic it actually seems to age processes, by extending it you hit a reset. I assume you can extend beyond the initial birth point but it won't push the body back into the developmental cycle, which has also been in the news lately, as the molecular development of a worm embryo has recently been developmentally mapped via transcription and cell order. This truly is promethium, fire from the gods on steroids shit tbh.
2.5 years, would a 9 month old baby die if you did this to it?
Originally posted by Putinbot1
no, really this is in many ways about extending the telomere which sends a signal as to how a cell should behave. Think of a telomere as a fuse. Every cell division it burns down, this seems to be more than a clock or cosmetic it actually seems to age processes, by extending it you hit a reset. I assume you can extend beyond the initial birth point but it won't push the body back into the developmental cycle, which has also been in the news lately, as the molecular development of a worm embryo has recently been developmentally mapped via transcription and cell order. This truly is promethium, fire from the gods on steroids shit tbh.
Very good write-up on Telomeres.
I'll definitely steal your "fuse" example when I explain it it again, in the future.
Originally posted by dadudemonthey truly are fascinating, what with this and the removal of Zombie cells and the affect this has on things like arthritis we are moving into the realms of repair and not just life extension. My father is 91 but his standard of life is not great as many things do not function as they should, but 91 functioning as a newly retired 65 year old I could go for.
Very good write-up on Telomeres.I'll definitely steal your "fuse" example when I explain it it again, in the future.
Originally posted by samhainif we don't ruin ourselves through other things, the first millennial to exist a millennium from now is here Sam. Be it through a "soul catcher" either biological or technological or by repair. The echo of someone will be here a thousand years from now.
Last time I did any reading on this subject they were still pissing about with free radicals. I remember hearing the theory somewhere that the first person to live to be 150 years old has likely already been born, could be a bunch of them walking around with this new research.
Originally posted by samhainthey've just discovered a large chunk of the physical and chemical nature of memory. This is almost as interesting in terms of the possibility of recording and perhaps one day reimprining the memories of a dead person on a living clone. Imagine if we had Davinci or Newtons life and memories to re-imprint on a cloned body of them. Crazy stuff Sam.
^Interesting. Although it could be argued that has always been the case, like you know... Jesus. In all seriousness though, looks like I'm going to have to do some catching up with how far we've come with our 'Playing At God' science.
Originally posted by Robtard
The rich/powerful will be effectively immortal. What could do wrong.
Then we will have "Meths." "Methuselah" people: all the very old people that are constantly being rejuvinated and are practically immortal.
Watch the show Altered Carbon. Very interesting take on the future. Obviously, it makes the same mistake all Sci-Fi makes: no AI singularity.