Originally posted by Osirisrisen
Originally posted by soficrow
Think the goal is to maintain the family line and fortune simultaneously - it's a bit like making fine china - the clay is worked for generations
(100's of years) before it's used to make the china... Called long term planning.
.....Then there's that old 'water of life.' ...not such a myth - the key is in molecular biology, called telomeres - they were discovered at the
end of the 1940's. Young stem cells have long telomeres and preserve youth - aged cells have short telomeres or none at all. ...Ever noticed that
really rich people don't seem to age?...FYI - It's not facelifts. Cell replacement therapies have been available in exclusive mountain clinics for
many decades. ...Ever wonder where they might get those young stem cells?
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Your kidding right?
Not at all. ...Just run a few google searches. ...There's a huge stem cell and cell replacement industry targetting the middle class now, but the
treatments just aren't the same.
...You'll find links to clinics for lower priced stem cell treatments and cell replacement therapies, but only hints about the really exclusive
stuff.
..."Pioneering genetic studies by Hermann Muller in 1938 and Barbara McClintock in 1941 showed that the ends of chromosomes had to be capped by a
special structure termed the telomere to prevent chromosome fusion (Muller, 1962; McClintock, 1941)." ...History says, "It was not until the early
1970s that the mechanisms of leading and lagging strand DNA replication began to be understood," but the fact is, exclusive private clinics have been
playing with the technology for decades...
FYI - both Muller and McClintock were connected to Cold Spring Harbor - the seat of the Eugenics movement in the USA, which had very strong ties to
the Nazis.
See: Immortalizing Human Cells with Telomerase
www.bioinfo.org.cn...
For more history and biology, see "Plant Telomere Biology"
www.plantcell.org...
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