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 ...
As an undergraduate biology student at UC San Diego I went to a talk one evening on aging where the speaker asserted that, with proper diet, exercise, some medications, extending human lifespan - functional - to 125 was easily attainable.
Some wag in the middle of the audience said - loud enough for nearly everyone in the audience to hear him - “Great, we’ll NEVER get rid of the department chairman.”
The laughter went on for several minutes as the joke was passed on to the rest of the audience. Funny thing was, the dept. chairman stepped down a year or two later.
I’m not sure, but I always thought that voice belonged to Dr. Nick Spitzer, who took over as chairman.
You're not paying attention. The degradation we associate with aging is process of molecular 'damage'. Scientists have identified what is being 'damaged' in the process of cell division, and are working on drugs to prevent, and ultimately counteract that damage. In effect, to put us back at 'peak' age of ~24.
I'm 40 now, I wouldn't mind haven't my 24 year old body back...
This technology has interesting implications for space travel, as well as forcing a complete rethink of the 'pay as you go, borrow more tomorrow' philosophies of government. How different would you live you life knowing that once you saved enough money you wouldn't have to work again, and could have decades, or centuries, to more fully enjoy life?
Those interested in what an 'after-life' may hold will still be free to not take these drugs and proceed toward a natural death if that is their genuine preference.
After learning about the function of telomeres years ago I concluded that natural death is more than anything an evolutionary instrument to 'clear the stage' for the subsequent generation.
I prefer to spend my eternity with King Jesus, not King Obummer...
We damn well better come up with a means of space travel to export the excess people we will produce of find a fair and reasonable means of limiting WHO can be qualified to be given this immortality treatment (good luck with that). Otherwise genocidal WAR is the inevitable result as limited resources become desired by the have nots.
The economies of the world will be disrupted by a new commodity, the immortality drug will be the most desired and most demand, most smuggled, most stolen, most costly product ever produced–no matter how inexpensive it is to make–because it will be regulated and made illegal, and doled out to preferred people.
We should shoot this guy right now.
Who the heck would WANT to live in THIS world forever?
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Isaiah 14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
When nobody dies, the Earth and human habitation will collapse of its own weight.
Silly me, I forgot the remedy will only be available to the elite in Versailles on the Potomac. The rest of us will get Soma and Soylent Green.
God help us!
As soon as he’s dead, he’ll be immortal, alright.
Who would want to live forever, especially in a place full of pain and failure. With all due respect to God’s creation, this place and this life is far from perfect. You want proof? obama voters exist.
But no, God made pain and failure in this life because he doesn’t consider this place and this life as ultimately important. Instead, he considers Heaven and Hell as what truly matters.
You mean any taxpayer dumb enough to continue paying taxes?
IIRC, the first SS recipient had something less than $25 total, removed from her remaining pre-retirement wages, and got back more than $20,000 until her death.
The Myth of Tithonus
Every day, when Helios drove his wonderful horses and his fiery chariot across the sky, it was Aurora who opened the gates of pearl and drew back the dark curtains of the night; for Aurora, goddess of the dawn. She was so beautiful that the whole sky flushed pink with pleasure when she appeared in the east.
On the earth lived a mortal called Tithonus, who loved Aurora so well that he never failed to leave his bed while it was still dark, to watch for her coming. Aurora loved Tithonus in return, and one day she flew to the king of the gods, and begged of him that Tithonus might be given a draught of nectar, and so become immortal.
Jupiter granted this request, and Aurora took Tithonus up to Mount Olympus to live in her golden house.
The goddess had forgotten to ask that Tithonus might never grow old. Therefore, the time came when gray hairs could be seen among his golden curls. Aurora was kind to him in spite of this, and continued to give him beautiful garments, and to feed him on ambrosia. Still, Tithonus grew older and older, and in time, after several hundred years, he was so very old that he could not move at all. Little was left of him but his voice, and even that had grown high and thin. Then he withered away so much that he had to be shut up in a room, for safe-keeping. Aurora felt so sorry to see him withering away in this manner that she changed him into a little insect, and sent him down to the earth again, where men called him the grasshopper.
Very glad to be free and active once more, Tithonus hopped about in the fields all day, chirping cheerfully to Aurora.
Even if they “cured” aging we would all eventually die in an accident, in around 800 years or so on average. I saw this stat in a scientific journal a while back.
Most interesting is, both Balzac and H.P. Lovecraft liked it.
This is great news, I can collect SS and Pensions for another 100 years???
This is July 4th, not April 1st.
Immortality.
Sheesh!
Just think how many more people we can produce, wouldn’t that be great, then we can blame global warming on breathing?
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