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Old 10-03-2007, 01:39 PM  
pocketkangaroo
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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn View Post
There is no immortality to be had any time soon, if ever, unfortunately. All living animals age at the cellular level and the whole organism level and accumulate damage that can't really be repaired in the long term.
The stuff they are doing with stem cells may change that. We may go in someday for "tune ups". We might change our kidneys every 30 years like we'd change tires on a car. We might just be able to regenerate everything in our body over and over. Still hundreds of years away.
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