Human Biological Immortality But what progress has science made in translating such a feat into success for species that have evolved without the means of defeating age-related deterioration? In short, the DNA of each cell of most species have caps at the end to protect the DNA during cell division. Each time cells divide, these caps get shorter until eventually, the DNA itself begins deteriorating with each cell division - thus bodily functions, both internal and external, begin to deteriorate as well, causing aging and eventual death. The therapy carried out by researchers using lab rats sought to extend and stabilize these caps, granting the test subjects unnaturally long lives. Theory no more, the science of extending life at a cellular level is a reality, one that can and inevitably will be translated to human patients. The science of life extension doesnt stop with stabilizing telomeres. As the field of genetics and synthetic biology expand, the ability to sequence, understand, analyze, re-sequence, and reintroduce DNA into a patient will open new doors to both the treatment of disease, and regenerative medicine, including the regeneration of cells from a state of age or environmentally-induced deterioration back to a younger, healthier state. The current limitations involve our ability to read and rewrite DNA with the level of genetic literacy necessary to take a patients DNA and extrapolate what it should look like, re-write it and reintroduce it into their body on a full-spectrum scale to achieve full biological immortality. However, the ability to do this is being developed through a wide variety of research and competitions.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:41:59 +0000
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