Do you think immortality will ever be in the grasp of medical research?

Telomeres, the ends of chromosones, have been dicovered to decrease everytime the chromosone duplicates.


They have created lab samples of immortal human cells.


The bad news is that telomeres are a key part of cancer cells and there is a high likelyhood that this would be fatal treatment if it were possible to manipulate this in a living human being.


Do you feel that medical reasearch will ever be able to manlipulate this so that we have functional immortality.

Do you think immortality will ever be in the grasp of medical research?
The quest for immortality has ever been the subject of medical and non-medical research. What you've mentioned is one of the aspects. Apart from manipulating the DNA, there is cutting-edge research going on in the field of stem cells to prevent aging and cell loss; ways are also being sought to reduce (and even stop) free radical-induced damage that results in aging and wear and tear.





While these and many other frontiers are being explored, and probably also being conquered, many more obstacles will arise. We are more than likely to be able to overcome quite a few of these barriers and to delay aging. But achieving immortality would (if at all) probably require a breakthrough in a totally different direction, something that nobody has thought of so far, something that probably even defies the present rules of science and revolutionizes the entire way of thinking.





Nice to know that you are thinking of such stuff.
Reply:Nah, because my experience has been that once we figure one thing out, three questions arise. Overcoming the telomeres might extend life, but what happens when your mitochondria start to go? If its not one thing, it will be another....
Reply:No. The medical profession is trying to increase life span, but not immortality. That's the problem of our Heavenly Father. And He has settled that. We have been promised immortality by believing in His Son.
Reply:No.





Because DNA replication mechanisms involves more than the role played by the telomerase.





The DNA engineers create the DNA system have so much hidden tricks. And, I believe, after one day scientists uncovered the entire replication and mutation mechanism, they will realize it is impossible to alter cells to achieve immortality.





If not, this will be a bug and the creator will fix it in the next release.
Reply:How about the Transcription and Translation processes? Scientists haven't completely got how these processes work. And the key thing to a living human is the ability of the body to make the proteins to sustain life, eg, haemoglobin, enzymes, hormones etc. And the processes of the Central Dogma are so complex; there's so many steps and there are many conditions to actually start the process. And we also need to proof-read the processes, right? Or else there'll just be mutation, and then what?





We aren't called mortals for nothing, aren't we?
Reply:We have lifespans for a reason.