Could we potentially make cells immortal, thus making humans immortal? The Turritopsis dohrnii, is a type of medusa that when stressful conditions arise they go back to its underdeveloped form. They are known as the immortal jellyfish because they can undergo this process called transdifferentiation. Using medusas as a model, could we potentially find the key to immortality? Another potential key for preventing cell death and a key to immortality is HeLa cells. These cells originate from a woman who got a biopsy done back in the 1950s to treat her cervical cancer. Her cells continued to grow in a lab setting, which is incredibly hard to do. To this day, researchers still use her cells to do biomedical research. With these two models, we could potentially make cells immortal, but there is still a major issue of DNA and protein mutations that can lead to cancer, or diseases.
Could we potentially make cells immortal, thus making humans immortal? The Turritopsis dohrnii, is a type of medusa that when stressful conditions arise they go back to its underdeveloped form. They are known as the immortal jellyfish because they can undergo this process called transdifferentiation. Using medusas as a model, could we potentially find the key to immortality? Another potential key for preventing cell death and a key to immortality is HeLa cells. These cells originate from a woman who got a biopsy done back in the 1950s to treat her cervical cancer. Her cells continued to grow in a lab setting, which is incredibly hard to do. To this day, researchers still use her cells to do biomedical research. With these two models, we could potentially make cells immortal, but there is still a major issue of DNA and protein mutations that can lead to cancer, or diseases.
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Could we potentially make cells immortal, thus making humans immortal?
The Turritopsis dohrnii, is a type of medusa that when stressful conditions arise they go back to its underdeveloped form. They are known as the immortal jellyfish because they can undergo this process called transdifferentiation. Using medusas as a model, could we potentially find the key to immortality?
Another potential key for preventing cell death and a key to immortality is HeLa cells. These cells originate from a woman who got a biopsy done back in the 1950s to treat her cervical cancer. Her cells continued to grow in a lab setting, which is incredibly hard to do. To this day, researchers still use her cells to do biomedical research.
With these two models, we could potentially make cells immortal, but there is still a major issue of DNA and protein mutations that can lead to cancer, or diseases.
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