Telomeres

[b29349]

has anyone tried to stop aging before it begins by removing age sequence in a zygote?

[notnilccm]

Can someone explain to me using common sense and logic what would be wrong with immortality?

[charvinn]

@notnilccm We'll run out of resources and room the more people give birth. With limited food supply, war will inevitably break out, not to mention millions of people starving to death.

[notnilccm]

@charvinn Respectfully disagree. did you know that you can fit every human on the planet inside rhode island? Its true. you can give each person 4 square feet and theres room left over. and what does immortality have to do with room? population sustains at 2 children per couple. i am not an ultra optimist, but dont be a doom and gloomer.

[charvinn]

@notnilccm What are they going to get energy from? Solar power? And they'll still run out of room eventually regardless of space. Besides, who wants to live a life like that?

[cormermusic]

@notnilccm Think about a world, where death is not a legal punishment as it isn't here in many parts of the world.

Then think about Hitler, Charles Manson, Vlad the Impaler, all  young and unable to die. You can lock em up as best you can but they'd be free eventually because science demands that if something IS possible, it WILL happen given the proper amount of time, and when you can't die you've got all the time in the world, no pun intended.

[cormermusic]

@notnilccm P.S. I am ofcourse aware that two of those three people I mentioned are dead already, but there will always be someone worse to come along.

[notnilccm]

@cormermusic I realize you are playing devils advocate, and thank you for making me think. I believe our future world will be unlike ANY of us can imagine. But Im a die hard believer in science, and optimistic that we will overcome any roadblocks in much the same way we do today. I imagine a world free of crime. How is this possible? Science.

[RiggerDaMan]

So if I eat telomeres for breakfast every day, I will live forever, right?

[kierkwingen]

well, correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that the enzyme telomerase helps to keep the telomeres from shortening as we are young, which will keep the cells replicating, but as we get older telomerase starts to (we'll just say) disappear, therefore cells eventually stop replicating and.... mortality as everyone seems to be referring to,... am I right?

[hamasaful]

@kierkwingen nope ,, u r actually wrong , telomerase is active only in gametes ( sex cells ) bec. genes in hereditary chromosomes should not be lost since it will be passed to next generations , but telomerase although its found in somatic cells ( body cells ) but it is not active , so chromosomes keep shortenening untill after maybe 5o generations of replication of cells , senescense begins and aging starts and cells start to age and maybe die , hope u got it

[Leetuss]

noooo we're all gonna die

[richie518]

this video is not correct, watch others for a more complete explanation

[Catchetat]

But don't you have telomerase to correct this replication error?

[brice1848]

@Catchetat: Somatic cells do not have the enzyme called telomerase or their activity is way to low. but cancer cell show often a very high activity of those!

excuse my english, it's not my mother tongue :-)

[MaceWright]

I have a speculation,that the telomeres are a form of antenna that pick up electromagnetic energy from various sources and help to distribute that energy along the DNA. The electromagnetic energies help to maintain a robust DNA structure.When the antenna begins to degrade, the entire DNA construct begins to decay. The electromagnetsim is connected to the DNA at the subatomic level.One primary source of electromagnetic energy is from SUNLIGHT,and this is one of the great sustainers of life.

[dtmd101]

immortality...or cancer. cancer cells add their own telomeric sequence and can replicate continuously

[radioactivechick]

heh, i dunno if immortality would be such a great idea..

[boxa888]

so thats the secret for imortality lol

[master2030]

@boxa888 Not really but we think that could be one of them.

[boxa888]

@master20 what is interesting is that theoretically you put together an energy field, consisting of a few different frequencies,that would hold the strands together after each replication thus allowing the telomere to stay intact,no gm enginnering,just energy manipulation in the em or electric field spectrum,then you would be adding energy to keep your self alive forever,while keeping the same genetics intact.such names come to mind as the rife machine,resonance,my favorite "tesla pancake coil"

[PacoTheMuffinman]

@boxa888 and cancer :D

[boxa888]

@PacoTheMuffinman u see the anti cancer mouse! it cure cancer with a simple blood transfusion!!! just youtube it, it should be anti cancer blood transfusion or anticancer mouse! very breakthrough technology! just find the humans in the population that have this ability and cancer is cured.! it is that easy!! it cured radiation damage which is the biggest creator of a wide range of cancers, so if the mouse blood cured the other mice without the ability, it will work in humans!! chec it out!!