On Australian news afew months ago was a new pill on trial which will extend human life. Scientist have now discovered how and why we age. So I was hoping by 2020 I could be like ROBOCOP and live forever.......and maybe I want a gun that comes out of my leg. Do you think this is possible? Is science my new Jehovah letting me reach 190 years old?
"Millions now living will never die" thanks to Science and new pill!!!
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DesirousOfChange
If it becomes available soon enough, this may resolve the Millions Now Living Will Never Die" debacle.
OK, so maybe it will just be "Millions Tens-of-Thousands Now Living Will Never Die", since there are only about 200,000 still alive from 1914 worldwide.
Although, if a person had to be of "discerning age" (say 10), the it will be "MillionsTens-of-Thousands Hundreds Now Living Will Never Die".
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cofty
The cause of aging has been known for quite a long time, its thought to be the shortening of the telomeres - the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of chromosomes.
They have been compared to the little plastic bits at the end of your shoe laces, they protect the important code when a cell divides.
Its possible that lifespan could be extended through a genetic solution.
Apparently though this is only part of the answer
Some long-lived species like humans have telomeres that are much shorter than species like mice, which live only a few years. Nobody yet knows why. But it's evidence that telomeres alone do not dictate lifespan.
Cawthon's study found that when people are divided into two groups based on telomere lengths, the half with longer telomeres lives five years longer than those with shorter telomeres. That suggests lifespan could be increased five years by increasing the length of telomeres in people with shorter ones.