NEWS: Stem cells linked to life expectancy

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Adam

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The length of our lives may be determined by the toughness of our stem cells. A team at the University of Kentucky has found that the mouse strains that live the longest have stem cells in their bone marrow that are particularly good at repairing DNA.

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It can't just repair the old cells, they can completely heal "for example" the nerv-system of a creature that it has been damaged on. That is what the stemcells are good for...but ofcourse what we claim to know of the human biology is just a drip in the ocean.

Assasin001
 
LOL I did a small report on that article a couple weeks ago for Biology class. Interesting it is.
 
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