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apitoday at 11:28 AM1 replyview on HN

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.


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informanticstoday at 1:14 PM

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

Immortality has quite a history to it!