Live forever via SCIENCE!

[RebelFencer]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech...9433511780.htm

[mrbiggs]

Yay!

Well, I guess that's all for aging.

Does this mean I get to be a junior fencer forever?

[RebelFencer]

ha, that's what I was wondering. But sadly they go by date of birth, so I don't think there's any hope for that.

[ThatReallyHurt]

Yeah, science can be pretty handy every once in a while.

Interesting article. Can't find too much more useful info about it, though... which is surprising, considering the possiblilities from such a discovery.

[RebelFencer]

Well I'd imagine that the scientific community is a little gunshy after the whole Korean stem-cell debacle.

[ThatReallyHurt]

Well, that's the best thing about science - you can use science to prove other science.

You can't do that with religion, philosophy, and math...

[carlos]

uh-huh. So your cells never die. No new skin cells, no new cells lining the intestine... Or, new cells are born but the old ones don't go away... Your skin just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

No thanks.
We need our cells to die. It's how our body works. Well, except for our nerve cells after certain age. They hang around, probably to remind us how old we are.

[Moses]

Not just our nerve cells. Many of the cells in your body which are constantly replaced lose 'fertility' as we get older because of damage to their structures or DNA as they reproduce. People don't 'die from old age'; they die because the mucous-producing cells of their inner stomach fail and gastric acid causes internal bleeding, or because their kidneys deteriorate and they can't flush toxins from their bodies.

It's not as simple as keeping the brain alive.

-Da Mose

[Black Jeebus]

Personally I like how in the last paragraph they were like "Oh, and we think we've found some new treatments for cancer..." I've decided there's nothing Korean medical science can't fix! Just you wait in a few years we'll all be serving our Korean supermen masters!

[kalivor]

Personally I like how in the last paragraph they were like "Oh, and we think we've found some new treatments for cancer..." I've decided there's nothing Korean medical science can't fix! Just you wait in a few years we'll all be serving our Korean supermen masters!

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There are many different treatments for cancers, and many avenues that are being explored for further treatments ... that a person studying how cells die explores these avenues is typical, not extraordinary.

[parrythis]

"CGK733"... So, that's the new name they're giving snake oil these days.

[Katman]

I've already decided to live forever via magic.

[TrainingDummy]

Anyone here listen to Slayer? If you want reign eternally just "sign the book of red."

[poor_nizzie]

Or take a page from Guster's book - drink the whole cup of tea. You will never grow up; you will never grow old.