Will biotechnology allow people to live forever?

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Permalink Reply by anup chowdhury on April 10, 2009 at 9:49am

According to mythology, one cannot be immortal but it depends on his environment and his attitudes towards life which makes him happy and as he views world a happier place and his life extends. We have cases in India, where a man is 150 years old and has no medical complaints. But his eye is impaired, which amazes me that he still eats well as an person old as 40-60 years would do. I am biotechnologist, as my opinion would say that according to system which god has created one should be born as baby...to child...young boy....adult.....mid-aged man.....aged man....old-aged man....Death is a natural process...which according to me is apoptosis of cells....the case above looks nice on guiness book of world records but as a biological organism, he is of no use after a certain age limit.....I would only say its the way you live and you are confident in your deeds then it takes you all obstacles ..and you live happily.

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Permalink Reply by anup chowdhury on April 10, 2009 at 9:53am

At this moment we can only manipulate our environment but cannot predict what has already been stated in god's book. I beleive in god and so science came much and much later even the world has existed....

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Holland on April 17, 2009 at 7:32pm

nano-machines.

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Permalink Reply by anup chowdhury on April 24, 2009 at 11:15am

hello sir,

I would like to know more of nano-machines and their feasibility in being useful to human needs?

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Permalink Reply by niharika bhatia on April 28, 2009 at 4:04am

being a human being and mortality rate it is actually very easy to say that after certain period of time one has to leave this earth..bt then being a biotechnologist i believe v can alter the possibilities of leaving this stage early i. e. we as a biologist can create some genes or alter them by mutations that would increase our life span.infact their is a friend of mine who actually came up wih anti aging gene which helps prevent oneself from being old.sounds strange but if it gonna true i think most of the people who are pretty concious of their age would love to see its effect.

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Permalink Reply by anup chowdhury on April 28, 2009 at 6:04am

It is the same i mentioned that it is just our hit-trial method or manipulation using recombinant DNA techology, we are exploring our genetic network, but how far it is going to be resistable by human system or how far it is going to be true for all genes. we have to understand our limitations as a biologists and think logically. Everything as a concept on papers or publications is not true practically or ethically. we need more research to support both the sides of this debate.

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