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Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-still-getting-older-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that the solution is to be found in the ends of the chromosomes, called the telomeres, and in an enzyme that forms them."

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  1. OK by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they've changed the chromosome code to encode data using a lossless codec instead of a lossy one. Terrific, now we have to put up with people moaning about the lack of FLAC encoding in their music AND genes.

    Thanks a bunch, stupid scientists.

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  2. Re:I would settle for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the worst thing about watching someone get old is to see their self reliance taken away and needing someone to help them into and out of the bath, change their diaper, feed them and put them to bed.

    Speak for yourself.

    I had to change my kids' diapers. Turnabout is fair play.

    I, for one, look forward to being a burden to my family and making them change my diaper.

  3. Re:Good find by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    More importantly; as people get wealthier the amount of children they have drops down, for example I am an only child and so is my cousin.

    And some people never have any children, such as my parents.