No. The fertility and diabetes complications come from specific (known) genetic interactions between this gene and those phenotypes. Other anti-aging therapies do not have those complications.
At the start, one chromosome is maternal, the other is paternal. But over time, they actually swap bits around until there's a mixture.
close... they don't swap bits in our body cells, only in the formation of sperm and egg cells. so, for example, the chromosomes your mother gave you thru her egg were a actually a combination of sequence originaly from your maternal grandparents.
each body cell carries 2x genomes. each sperm or egg cell gets a randomly mixed 1x version. because the 1x genome is 3e9 bases, any two sperm or egg cells from a single person are totally unlikely to be identical. that's why siblings aren't normally identical.
That's because IQ is not correlated with happiness, which is under separate genetic control. So select for embroys with the genes to be happy geniuses. Duh;)
Caloric restriction with top flight current medicine could only be expected to extend human lifespan to about 120 years average. It would take radical technology to achieve zero aging.
However, in more simple organisms you can double and even triple lifespans, so it doesn't seem *impossible* for humans.
Regarding segregation, the parent claim is totally wrong, but your response is also incorrect. Nothing in science will tell you what "ought" to be. Segregation was a moral issue, not a scientific one.
Actually, the paper says that their mathematical model suggest that everyone alive today SHARES A SINGLE ANCESTOR who lived about 3500 years ago. Not that he's our only ancestor from that time.
But I do know that we have put more government money into embryonic stem cell research than adult stem cell research.
Not true. Current NIH funding for ES cell research is very small as compared to adult stem cell research. Both of which are very small as compared to other research fields.
We (the people) are no longer wasting money to research how to create new "lines" and now spending our money on researching actual uses of the existing lines.
Unfortunately, the existing lines are not sufficient for the kind of research needed to quickly advance ES cell technologies. They are without question not sufficent for the development of ES cell-based therapies.
They did find the molecules involved. They are IGF-1 and WNT5a. The interesting twist was that the ES cells partially corrected the defect even if they were injected into the mother during pregnancy. The cells don't cross the placenta, rather it is the IGF-1 that does.
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No. The fertility and diabetes complications come from specific (known) genetic interactions between this gene and those phenotypes. Other anti-aging therapies do not have those complications.
At the start, one chromosome is maternal, the other is paternal. But over time, they actually swap bits around until there's a mixture. close... they don't swap bits in our body cells, only in the formation of sperm and egg cells. so, for example, the chromosomes your mother gave you thru her egg were a actually a combination of sequence originaly from your maternal grandparents. each body cell carries 2x genomes. each sperm or egg cell gets a randomly mixed 1x version. because the 1x genome is 3e9 bases, any two sperm or egg cells from a single person are totally unlikely to be identical. that's why siblings aren't normally identical.
That's because IQ is not correlated with happiness, which is under separate genetic control. So select for embroys with the genes to be happy geniuses. Duh ;)
Caloric restriction with top flight current medicine could only be expected to extend human lifespan to about 120 years average. It would take radical technology to achieve zero aging. However, in more simple organisms you can double and even triple lifespans, so it doesn't seem *impossible* for humans.
Regarding segregation, the parent claim is totally wrong, but your response is also incorrect. Nothing in science will tell you what "ought" to be. Segregation was a moral issue, not a scientific one.
Actually, the paper says that their mathematical model suggest that everyone alive today SHARES A SINGLE ANCESTOR who lived about 3500 years ago. Not that he's our only ancestor from that time.
Someone should point out the Wikipedia entry on Intelligent Design.
Actually the average male is carrying millions of unique haploid genomes in his pants.
But I do know that we have put more government money into embryonic stem cell research than adult stem cell research.
Not true. Current NIH funding for ES cell research is very small as compared to adult stem cell research. Both of which are very small as compared to other research fields.
We (the people) are no longer wasting money to research how to create new "lines" and now spending our money on researching actual uses of the existing lines.
Unfortunately, the existing lines are not sufficient for the kind of research needed to quickly advance ES cell technologies. They are without question not sufficent for the development of ES cell-based therapies.
They did find the molecules involved. They are IGF-1 and WNT5a. The interesting twist was that the ES cells partially corrected the defect even if they were injected into the mother during pregnancy. The cells don't cross the placenta, rather it is the IGF-1 that does.