Life span and evolution

@wildgrass said
Sure.... here you go.

RESEARCHERS WHO STUDY Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly elevated to super star status in genetic studies by Nobel laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan, have never reported a Yoda, GHR-KO 11C, or IdG1-030. “There is no oldest fly,” says Marc Tatar, an evolutionary biologist at Brown University. “We don't really pay that much attention. People who wo ...[text shortened]... including the comically named Indy (I'm not dead yet)—that affect metabolic pathways.

@metal-brain said
That explains nothing.

@wildgrass said
I guess you'll have to read the article then.

@metal-brain said
So you want to burden those that know you are wrong? What have you proved again?

@wildgrass said
I'm not sure why you feel compelled to resort to aggressive confrontation every time. I just thought you might be interested in reading that article.

for anyone who is interested what causes the aging process that leads to death from old age in humans and how it might be slowed down to prolong life, there is no current scientific consensus on that and the answer seems complicated but here is just some of the relevant research I have seen on the subject;

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190214100036.htm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620125933.htm

http://theconversation.com/ageing-in-human-cells-successfully-reversed-in-the-lab-101214

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/how-we-age-35872

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-weakest-link-aging-proteome.html

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-aging.html

@humy said
for anyone who is interested what causes the aging process that leads to death from old age in humans and how it might be slowed down to prolong life, there is no current scientific consensus on that and the answer seems complicated but here is just some of the relevant research I have seen on the subject;

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190214100036.htm

http ...[text shortened]... rg/news/2013-09-weakest-link-aging-proteome.html

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-aging.html

@wildgrass said
I'm not sure why you feel compelled to resort to aggressive confrontation every time. I just thought you might be interested in reading that article.

@metal-brain said
If you read it you could easily copy and paste the relevant info and save me a lot of unnecessary reading. Since you seem unwilling to do that I question whether you really read anything there at all. People on this forum often bluff and claim long articles contain thing that are simply not there. Humy has done that to me before and I wasted a considerable amount of time ...[text shortened]... s time out of spite and it is possible you are the same way. Copy and paste it if it is really true.

@sonhouse said
The one Wild posted was only one page long, just a few hundred words. You are bitching about an article that short? About a shark they think is 500 years old?

@metal-brain said
Nonsense. The article from the link he posted is long as hell. Read it yourself if you think it is so short and copy and paste it for me while you are at it.

@metal-brain said
If you read it you could easily copy and paste the relevant info and save me a lot of unnecessary reading. Since you seem unwilling to do that I question whether you really read anything there at all. People on this forum often bluff and claim long articles contain thing that are simply not there. Humy has done that to me before and I wasted a considerable amount of time ...[text shortened]... s time out of spite and it is possible you are the same way. Copy and paste it if it is really true.

@metal-brain said
Selective breeding can lengthen life span. This has been proven with flies. Find out which changes took place and then ask yourself if it can be done.

Why do you think population increase is bad? Besides, people do not always die of old age. People die in cars, war and risky selfies. Are you condoning genocide to decrease the population? If more people is bad, less people is good, right?

@wildgrass said
The brief news article was titled "Death–defying experiments" and related to your OP about pushing the limits of lifespan in a variety of experimental models. Its short, and I thought you might enjoy reading it, given your interest in the topic. There is no need to get snooty about it, just don't read it if you don't want to.

@deepthought said
I am 48, in thirty years or so I will die. This is something I accept, if reluctantly. There is no reason to cling on. You need to overcome your fear of death.