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spwa4 2 hours ago

We found telomerase and tried a bunch of things with it. We can reset the "clock", or DNA being DNA, at least one of the clocks in cells, at will.

Which mostly causes aggressive cancers.

api 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Some of our aging mechanisms are odometers on cell proliferation. These are adaptations to stop us from getting cancer.

You can be immortal right now. As a blob of cells in culture.

informantics 5 minutes ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Immortality has quite a history to it!