Mhm. I'd like to see what comes from their studies. Just a shame that a lot of people likely look at her as a freak. :(
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It you are talking about how systems degrade over time, that applies to closed systems with no energy input. Living things are hardly that. Sure entropy does apply to living things and mistakes and problems build up, however this doesn't account for all of the symptoms and effects of aging.
On the topic on the baby: I heard about her years ago, I hadn't heard they had started genetic sequencing on her though, in fact I'm surprised that it took until last year until they actually decided to do that.
Also I recall hearing there was recent progress with genetic sequencing of people with Progeria (a disease that causes rapid aging) and were able to identify some genes that may cause it. I would like to think once the genes and their mutations from both studies have been identified they would be studied together, then we could really start making progress towards a "fountain of youth" so to speak.
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Not completely applicable to biology since the laws of thermodynamics are laws of physics. People get energy by eating and use energy by living. You can't solve aging by eating a lot because aging is somewhat based on DNA damage accumulated over time because of metabolism.
There's tons of research on gerontology. I don't really think news sites offer much insight onto science as much as TEDMED talks.
Some of the stuff on the news tends to be a bit outdated when it comes to research.
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I hope we never achieve immortality. Talk about over population and demise in all fronts.
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I think if there was immortality, there would not be over-population... basic human nature provides the need to reproduce because we will not be in this world forever, so in order to continue your "lineage" as it were, you feel the need to reproduce so that there is something from you left in this world when you die... now imagine all that going away... people in Africa no longer die of hunger (I know for a fact that that itself would reduce the birth rate in Africa significantly because one of the main reasons people have so many kids there is that children die and the risk of having no one to look after you when you get old is great)... no one can die, even if they tried (but the there is a regeneration process which is excruciatingly painful, for example)... don't think anyone would reproduce in this kind of world :) the only problem I see would be the strain and eventual drying up of most (if not all) of the world's resources even at the current population levels staying constant... then again you would still have, what 150-200 years before the resources run out? that's still pretty good :D
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Here is a photo gallery from 2009: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/popup?id=7881955
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This article is about a year old. Popular science had an article about how they were trying to slow down ageing by turning on telomerase production or something like that, to slow degradation of our chromosomes. They predict you will be able to live until you're 150. Here's the arcticle: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-07/man-who-would-stop-time
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article7120516.ece
“Just possibly it could give us an opportunity to answer the question of why we are mortal.”
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