Worms key to immortality (well flatworms really...)

[lotek]

British scientists believe they may have identified how humans could potentially live forever - and it’s all about flatworms
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The research team studied how the flatworms manage to replace aged or damaged tissues and cells in a bid to understand what drives their longevity.
[...]
Key to a flatworm’s immortality lays in its telomeres – tiny sections of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes, protecting them from damage and the loss of cell functions linked to ageing.
[...]
“The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-flatworms- ... ality.html

Damn it's not their spicy poop that's gonna do it...*


Edit to add
(as long as it's not waterworms)

[gurensan]

“The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”

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lol. Key here is that once your animal is immortal, evolution is over.

[Freakzilla]

“The next goals for us are to understand the mechanisms in more detail and to understand more about how you evolve an immortal animal.”

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lol. Key here is that once your animal is immortal, evolution is over.

Nope, then we merge with the machines.

[gurensan]

Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.

[Freakzilla]

Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.

After that we become beings of thought inside a giant computer.

[DuneFishUK]

Aren't we already be part of an ultra-detailed physics simulation being run by a research lab to test theories about how the universe formed?

[ULFsurfer]

Yep, you're all little particles inside my laptop.

[gurensan]

Crap. Then we're subject to periodic upgrades.

After that we become beings of thought inside a giant computer.

Crap again. Now we're all subject to SOFTWARE upgrades. The worst kind ever.

I'm gonna get replaced by a microsoft product. yeesh.

Edit:

No animals were harmed during the making of this post. However, trillions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.

[Freakzilla]

Aren't we already be part of an ultra-detailed physics simulation being run by a research lab to test theories about how the universe formed?

As long as the resolution is finer than we can detect, what's the difference?

[SadisticCynic]

Aren't we already be part of an ultra-detailed physics simulation being run by a research lab to test theories about how the universe formed?

As long as the resolution is finer than we can detect, what's the difference?

Ockham's Razor?