ForumIsDead

Great, I'm going to do some research now on Telomerase. something I havn't been exposed to yet in any of my previous classes. Thanks for the information!

First off, I'm new to the forums an my expertise in most feilds of science are extremely limited, never-the-less i'm on here mainly to learn and discuss, because I think it's fun. Secondly, I wanted to ask the lot of you a question regarding relative immortality aside from violent death. This would be from the Cellular level outward. I.E. stopping the cell decay in constant reproduction, so that every cell reproduced in all our tissues is reproduced at 100% just as the one before it, so that our bodies would for lack of a better phrase, "never age". Is this possible now in a completely complimentary enviroment? Or would genetic changes have to be made? And would things such as toxins, U.V. light, and other detrimental sources linked to cell decay be a factor to constant 100% cell reproduction?