Can we slow, stop, eliminate death with new cells and artificial technology ie stem cells, mechanical organs?

Question

What causes one to die down? Is it time, or your body being worn out? what if you could renew you? what makes you you?

Answer 1

i've heard if just a couple insulin regulatory genes are deleted, it can double the lifespan of an organism

Answer 2

Fountain of youth? Immortality? Man has been on this quest since our existence.

Cells regenerate themselves over and over again. As we age the regeneration slows,until it finally stops and we die.

But with genetic engineering, cell therapy and advances in medicine, the possibility of prolonging our lives into the 100's is not farfetched. perhaps even indefinitely.

Many people don't want this, this is why there are so many people hindering it's progress. Think stem cell research here in the usa.

There are also many other factors to take into account, if people don't die, there will be no room for new generations. Where would we put them? But space colonization will solve those problems...

The possibilities are truly endless.

Awesome question!!

Answer 3

Actually, I did a research paper on stem cells, and they've found ways in lab rats to stop nerve degeneration and are trying to perfect it and eventually see its effects on humans, which will help those who have permanent disabilities or loss of use of their limbs to regain use of them, by regrowing the nerves.

Human bodies, like anything alive in this world, are kind of like ticking time bombs. You're fresh and perfect when you're young (or close to it), and as you get older, from the moment you're born, you start to degenerate and get older, your body cells and all cells start to get older. Sure, they get replaced, but the organs that don't replace themselves automatically (heart, brain, lungs) start to get weaker and weaker. This takes a lot of time, of course, as the average age for humans is pretty high for average, healthy people, but you can still see the effects. As you get older, your breathing can get worse, you can developpe asthma, heart problems and brain problems such as alzheimer's, and thats basically how it all starts, the end. Eventually your organs are too weak and degenerated for them to function properly and you die. Unless you die of things beforehand, like bodily abuse, for example high cholesterol lol.

I'm sure someday they will be able to renew important organs and body parts that are necessary, which will prolong life even longer than it does now but for now, well, just have to hold tight and do what we can to make our health as good as we can! Put down that bigmac!

Answer 4

Old age is engineered into our genes.  It kept the old from competing with the new generation so it gave a survival advantage because it increased the efficiency of evolution.  There are a few examples in nature when that programmed obsolescence has been overcome.  One example is bristlecone pines that live thousands of years.  It is so hard to establish a foothold in the high mountains that growing old wasn't an advantage.  One method that animals use is to have fixed lengths of telomeres, which are strands of DNA on the ends of chromosomes,  that count the number of times they can replicate before age deteriorates the chromosomes.  Very young organisms have an enzyme that replaces the telomeres so maybe one day they can repair that damage but it could cause cancer.

Answer 5

yes, but i am agaisnt this cause i am a christian

also, by getting a stem cell to research, ur killing a would-be baby. so at what cost are we using to get "immortality"

it is the aging process that causes you to becomes less "able," and die. to renew you, you can reverse the chromosome that makes you age, or take some miracle drug that makes ur cells.. better. both of these are imposible, for now