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ars on Feb 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Do Cells Age? Extremely Long-Lived Proteins

I think the idea is that cell death isn't the problem. Cells die all the time and get replaced, that's not really a problem.

A problem is cells that don't die, but instead start working poorer.

nazar on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

Or maybe the cells that should die but fail to do so?(cancer cells)

solnyshok on Feb 6, 2012 | [–]

omg, so by achieving immortality we would become a sort of cancer in the grand scheme of things?

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