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Tumor-suppressing Gene Contributes to Aging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-old dept.

Van Cutter Romney writes "Scientists have discovered a tumor suppressing gene which also leads to aging in stem cells. The gene also known as p16INK4a when removed from 'knockout' mice resulted in older mice having organs as healthy as younger ones. However they didn't live any longer than normal mice. The new study was confirmed by three independent researchers from Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill and University of Michigan."

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  1. Re:Principle of Hardy-Heisenberg-Jagger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    :::So it sounds like The Designer of the Universe [a pretty intelligent Fellow, from what I hear] may have placed the very same restrictions on the stuff He created on Day 5 as He did on the stuff He created way back on Day 1.:::

    Creationism isn't science. Never was, never will be. Common descent explains this exact phenomenon more completely than "intelligent design" does anyway. This is exactly the type of thing we would expect to see given common sense, while it is possible for an intelligent designer to use the same gene in all of the species or a very different gene that still performs the same function. This offers no evidence for intelligent design, and you are a deluded religious shitstain.

    Is this a flame? Yes.

    Does the attitude of my post affect the validity of the reasoning therein? No.