there was correlated stuff presented on the PBS _Scientific American..._
show tonight (last night; 25Jan2000). i didn't record the segment, so i
can't provide details, but it had to do with limitations with respect to
the number of times a cell can divide.
the segment talked of extending life by defeating this mechanism.
be careful, here, because one obvious reason for having a limit on the
number of times a cell can divide is the propensity for 'weary' cells to
become increasingly susceptible to mutation.
other correlated thing: it was in the news, recently, that 'patents' have
been recently applied for with respect to the "Dolly stuff".
'profit'-seekers... sheeshe!
K. P. Collins
kenneth Collins wrote:
> i encourage you to =focus= upon the Genetic stuff that underpins the
> reported 'accelerated aging' of the 'cloned' sheep, "Dolly".
>> everything you're looking for is in the Genetic stuff of her cells,
> which obviously encode an 'age'-correlated 'memory' of the 'state' in
> which their maternal DNA existed at the 'time' of the 'cloning'.
>> cheers, ken (K. P. Collins)
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