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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

LIMITED REGENERATION. "Many of the tissues of the adult limb have an inherent capacity to undergo a limited regenerative response to injury. Muscle regeneration is perhaps the best-studied example, and in this case, regeneration involves the proliferation and differentiation of a stem cell population (satellite cells) associated with mature muscle." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.b.20082/full 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

EXISTING GENES. "These studies provide support for the idea that the genetic machinery to regenerate a limb is available in humans, and that regeneration-competent animals have maintained access to reactivating these developmental programs." https://lnkd.in/d_NDPcr 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

SIMILAR GENE SETS. "There are numerous examples of genes whose expression during development and regeneration are identical and other genes whose expression is largely similar." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.b.20082/full 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

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

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

ENDOSYMBIOSIS THEORY "Still a junior faculty at Boston University at the time, her theory that cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent bacteria was largely ignored for another decade, becoming widely accepted only after it was powerfully substantiated through genetic evidence." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis View in LinkedIn