Month: September 2022

MORTALS, IMMORTALS AND MUTANTS. "Our findings suggest that, in the case of a mortal organism appearing among a population of immortal organisms as a mutant which evolutionarily acquires a genetic program for death by means of self-decomposition, this organism and its surviving offspring surpass immortal organisms and eventually prosper with adaptive divergence under various environmental conditions within a certain probability." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

MORTALITY BREEDS COMPLEXITY. "We take note of the fact that mortal organisms endowed with programmed self-decomposition are more complex than immortal organisms in both structural and functional aspects, and that the former can better increase the prosperity of their offspring than the latter can." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

SLOWLY DOMINANT MUTANT MORTALS. "Our findings suggest that a mortal organism, born among a population of immortal organisms, cannot reproduce and becomes extinct in many cases. Nonetheless, a number of mortal organisms did manage to survive at a small but significant rate. Moreover, once a mortal organism survives, it extends its habitation area, surpasses immortal organisms and prospers without exception." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF DEATH FROM IMMORTALITY. "The above results thus support our hypothesis that originally immortal organisms evolve into mortal organisms by acquiring a new genetic program for autonomous death." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

Ben Jennings on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the supreme court – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/oct/07/ben-jennings-on-brett-kavanaughs-confirmation-to-the-supreme-court-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

"CELL DEATH regulated by a genetic program, or Programmed Cell Death (PCD), is a fundamental mechanism of homeostasis of tissues." https://celldeath.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/lopezself_munoz.pdf View in LinkedIn

SELF-PURGING. "Cell death is not only employed to remove damaged or infected cells, but it is also important for sculpting tissues. During embryonic development, animals produce many cells which are no longer needed in the adult animal and which therefore undergo PCD to eliminate themselves." (PCD = programmed cell death). https://celldeath.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/lopezself_munoz.pdf View in LinkedIn

PREREQUISITES. "Cell-death programs as prerequisites of organized life." http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcbc245/MCBC245PDFs/Jan31/Huettenbrenner2003.pdf View in LinkedIn

DAILY DEATH FOR HEALTH. "During embryonic development of the nervous system, the finger digits, or the ovary, but also in adult organisms, minutely regulated daily death processes maintain health and integrity." http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcbc245/MCBC245PDFs/Jan31/Huettenbrenner2003.pdf View in LinkedIn

BIRTH BALANCES DEATH. "Every second, several millions of cells of the human body undergo apoptosis, i.e. in conditions of homeostasis each mitosis is compensated by one event of apoptosis." http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcbc245/MCBC245PDFs/Jan31/Huettenbrenner2003.pdf View in LinkedIn