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Scientist claims immortality within reach
tvnz.co.nz ^ | 7/4/15 | tvnz.co.nz

Posted on 07/04/2015 10:11:55 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Scientist claims immortality within reach

A visiting American research scientist says he is close to discovering a 'cure' for ageing, that he could have a drug ready for testing by the end of next year.

Molecular Biologist Dr Bill Andrews told TV ONE's SUNDAY programme that humans shouldn't have to suffer from the ravages of ageing. He says that ageing is a disease that should, and could be cured.

His research centres around Telomeres - small caps at the end of our chromosomes that become shorter every time our cells divide.

When they become critically short, we age and eventually die.

Dr Andrews believes that he can find a small molecule that will trigger the production of Telomerase in the body, which will lengthen the Telomeres and stop, or even reverse the ageing process. If he's successful, he says we could all end up looking and feeling 24 years old again.

(Excerpt) Read more at tvnz.co.nz ...


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KEYWORDS: aging; billandrews; immortality; science
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Hell on earth? Just imagine 500 years of Pelosi and Hitlery.
1 posted on 07/04/2015 10:11:55 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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Hell on earth? Just imagine 500 years of Pelosi and Hitlery.


They’re not 500 years old?


2 posted on 07/04/2015 10:15:41 AM PDT by boycott
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Why? As the comedian Fred Allen had said: “This is only the intermission, the big show is yet to come”


3 posted on 07/04/2015 10:15:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Obama without end.An eternity with Al Gore.


4 posted on 07/04/2015 10:17:34 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I still like this article:

http://www.theonion.com/article/doctors-find-new-way-to-prolong-meaningless-existe-514


5 posted on 07/04/2015 10:18:40 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Hubris. It always precedes the fall.


6 posted on 07/04/2015 10:19:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Eternal life has been within reach for a long time.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:14-16

The thought of living forever in sinful flesh is not appealing.

7 posted on 07/04/2015 10:20:41 AM PDT by aimhigh
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He is a day late. Already on the market!

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-ultra-telomere-advantage-60-veg-caps?SourceCode=INTL070&CAWELAID=530002460000061396&CAPCID=72822955087&cadevice=c&gclid=COXess7-wcYCFckYHwod1tUC5A


8 posted on 07/04/2015 10:21:06 AM PDT by TexasGator
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LOL! And only $14.99 !!!


9 posted on 07/04/2015 10:22:26 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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I remember reading about the discoveries surrounding telomeres and aging about five years ago. There’s a company that sells a product (which they claim) halts the degradation of the cells’ telomeres, which (they allege) slows down aging.

The papers I read were quite scholarly, and obviously the real deal. I would have given the product a whirl, but for the cost. Pretty expensive.


10 posted on 07/04/2015 10:23:50 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Did they misspell immorality?


11 posted on 07/04/2015 10:27:53 AM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

12 posted on 07/04/2015 10:27:57 AM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

First read it as ‘Scientists Claim Immorality Within Reach’. I couldn’t figure out how things could get much worse.


13 posted on 07/04/2015 10:28:36 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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The govt.’s worst nightmare, a 500 year old retiree still drawing social security.........


14 posted on 07/04/2015 10:32:53 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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..immortality within reach..

can't wait. looking forward to this.



15 posted on 07/04/2015 10:32:54 AM PDT by Koracan
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Not a chance. There are plenty more bugs in our DNA, they will take many thousands of years to fix.

16 posted on 07/04/2015 10:32:54 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Mount Athos

Thanks for that timely article, I laughed so hard that now I shall feel totally guilty about it for the rest of my miserable life! (LOLOLOL)


17 posted on 07/04/2015 10:35:10 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no man lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.


18 posted on 07/04/2015 10:37:47 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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When I was ten years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

When I was twenty years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

When I was thirty years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

When I was forty years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

When I was fifty years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

When I was sixty years old, the scientists were saying all I had to do was live ten more years and I would never die. . .

Now I am sixty-six years old, and a scientist is saying all I have to do is live one more year and he'll finally have a pill for me so that I will never die. . . they've been moving that damn goal post on me for 56 years.

When I live to be 67 years old, the scientists will be saying all I have to do is live one more year older and I will never die. . . sigh.

I think these swindler's are now just shortening the period so that I will think it may be true.

I think I will do what I have been doing all along, anyway. Put my faith in the Promise of Jesus Christ that I will never die. . . besides, I don't think I want to keep THIS body, with its ever present aches and pain!

I want the perfect one God will give me.

19 posted on 07/04/2015 10:40:23 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: BitWielder1

Absolutely,....not a chance....man’s arrogance amazes me.
Immortality in these corrupt clay shells isn’t what God intends.


20 posted on 07/04/2015 10:41:24 AM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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