Posted on 08/22/2009 1:40:22 PM PDT by decimon
I remember reading recently about Polk’s grandson still being alive.
Now THOSE are some genes.
If you mean “fixing” telomeres so they don’t run out, we’d probably want to find the cure for cancer first (cancer being cells that continue to replicate, and refuse to die when they are supposed to).
But then I suppose other diseases will just pop up. I believe that one of the primary “causes” for cancer today is quality medical care. 100 years ago, if you had a heart attack you died and didn’t live to eventually get cancer. Today, you get a second chance. If we cure cancer we’ll live on to get [something], IMO.
I dont disagree with you. My dad had his first heart attack at 65. For the next ten years he went through a stroke, PE, Kidney failure, another heart attack, and finally lung cancer.
Kind of makes you wonder....
You could be right, I don’t know about that.
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