Cause of death

as far as i understand the topic, aging (and then death as a consequence) is a programmed event, composed of complex regulatory pathways. That's why you can administer small molecule inhibitors such as rosveratrol and rapamycin which lengthen life-span ...

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... live just a couple of months, or couple of years if they are lucky. In my opinion, this suggests that there is a strong evolutionary reason behind death of old age. Thus it seems that you or I not living forever is good for our species, even if we did not like it. The nature _could_ have made us ...

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No as you say there is no sense for death evolution wise. However life is also in the hands of entropy, and there is a time where it become impossible to repare the accumulated damages, hence death. The molecule you are speaking with is called ...

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... in school i learnt that inside the cell there is a molecule which getting shorter every time the cell divide and that is why at the end there is death (no more renewal of the body). but evolution can cancel this. my suggestion is that if we live forever, there will be stagnation in the variety ...

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Maybe looking at the cell cycle during mitosis and seeing all the checkpoints might help you out. It could possibly end in cell death if the cell couldn't proceed thru its cell cycle. It is microtubules that connects the centromeres to the poles, and they begin to pull by way of letting ...

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