Month: September 2022

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS of regeneration and wound healing. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-169X.2007.00973.x/full View in LinkedIn

TRUTH PLUS URBAN MYTH. "Some animals such as lobsters and certain jellyfish do not die of old age." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension View in LinkedIn

LOBSTERS ARE NOT IMMORTAL, this is simply not true. Urban myth. https://lnkd.in/dz29spw View in LinkedIn

ANOTHER URBAN MYTH. "The sea anemone, frequently cited as an example of an organism hundreds of years old, if not immortal, is a colonial animal whose component cells turnover regularly thus making an argument for their immortality, or great longevity, spurious." https://lnkd.in/esfPTAR View in LinkedIn

RANGE OF LONGEVITY. "Some animal species are now firmly documented to live for more than four centuries and even some mammals, like the bowhead whale, appear to survive 200 years or more. Another group of species may not be as absolutely long-lived, but they are remarkably long-lived for their body size and metabolic rate." https://lnkd.in/dKy_BHg View in LinkedIn

DOWNGRADE. "Fusion of immortal cell lines with normal human fibroblasts or certain other immortal cell lines yields hybrids having limited division potential. Cellular immortality was found to be a recessive phenotype in hybrids. It was also found that at least two separate events in the normal cell genome can result in immortality. In fusions involving certain immortal parent cells, these events can be complemented to result in hybrids with finite division capacity." https://lnkd.in/dvCa5Um View in LinkedIn

"IMMORTALITY might be much more common than we think...There are sponges out there that we know have been there for decades. Sea-urchin larvae are able to regenerate and continuously give rise to new adults...This might be a general feature of these animals. They never really die.” https://lnkd.in/dBSb-HE View in LinkedIn

LONG LIFESPANS. "Why is it natural for a sea shell or a sponge to live for 400 or 1,500 years respectively, while humans are “naturally” capped at 100 or so?" https://lnkd.in/dBthDa2 View in LinkedIn

REVIEW BY HAYFLICK. This remarkable review by a pioneer in the longevity field will be quoted significantly along with other works by this excellent scientist. Knowing his personal history allows one to understand his contrarian and strongly held views. http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn

SEEDS OF A MYTH. "Early in this century, Alexis Carrel, a noted cell culturist, surgeon and Nobel Laureate, described experiments purporting to show that fibroblasts derived from chick heart tissue could be cultured serially indefinitely. The culture was voluntarily terminated after 34 years. This finding sparked intense interest world-wide not only in the scientific community but in the lay press as well." http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v62/full/62111380.html View in LinkedIn