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Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life

Posted by timothy on from the telomere-more-about-this dept.

porkchop_d_clown (39923) writes "When Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died in 2005, she was the oldest woman in the world. [New Scientist reported Wednesday] that, at the end of her life, most of her white blood cells had been produced by just two stem cells — implying the rest of her blood stem cells had already died, and hinting at a possible limit to the human life span."

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  1. Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't this old news?

  2. Oh, so somebody's an expert? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look, if you know what you're talking about, I'm not sure you fit in here....

  3. Re:Strange conclusion by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to get ahead of the game and work on that "heat death of the universe" limit.

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  4. Re:Bank them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But they smell funny..

  5. Re:Bank them by Gr8Apes · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a cremation service in the US that you can sign up for that will be ... aggressive ... in seeing your body cremated according to your wishes, (relatively) cheaply and quickly. Their market is precisely people who want to trump their family on this issue. But I'm blocking on the company name - anyone?

    Soylent.

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