Can Cloning Body Parts Make People Immortal? Are Their Continual Studies on to Reverse the Aging Process?

Cloning new body parts as a route to immortality poses some problems. The most notable problem is the brain–we can't yet transfer personalities, memory, thought, etc.. from one brain to another. So even if you replace all other body parts as needed, the brain will eventually begin to age and die. If the technology for transferring consciousness from one brain to another is even possible, it's a long way off. And then you'd still face an interesting philosophical question; are you really moving the person, or just copying them and allowing the original to die? And if so does that really count as immortality?

Anyway, there are continuing studies onto how to make people live longer. This is being tackled from a lot of different angles; some researchers are focusing on diet and lifestyle changes, others on altering genes and enzyme activity to reverse aging. There have been some real interesting discoveries on these fronts in recent decades. For example an enzyme has been discovered which protects DNA from degradating with age, which is thought to be a major contributor to the symptoms of aging. Scientists have also discovered genes that allow cells to grow and divide to regenerate lost body parts; unfortunately some of these genes seem to cause cancer, so there are problems with using them for therapeutic purposes that we haven't yet solved.

Aging is a really complicated process and there are divided opinions on what causes it. Some think it's merely a consequence of genes degrading with age because they've been corrupted during cell division over our lifetimes, but others think it may actually be a programmed process controlled by many genes that actually has an evolutionary purpose. The logic of this latter viewpoint is that it's actually better for spreading our genes if the older generation dies off after a while, leaving their offspring with more resources. This process would make it easier for changes in the gene pool to spread over time.

A lot of questions about aging in humans will be answered when we find a safe, effective method of gene therapy. Currently gene therapy in humans has serious problems; our immune systems tend to respond violently and often dangerously to any attempts to alter our genes. But slowly scientists are chipping away at this problem, and when a safe and effective gene therapy method is finally found, it will be much easier to test different "solutions" for aging. We've had trouble testing the effectiveness of the DNA-protecting enzyme so far, for example, because it's hard to actually get the enzyme into the patients' cells in a functional form. Effective gene therapy would make that kind of treatment much easier and so we'd be able to see if that gene really will solve many of the problems of aging, or if there are really many things going on that would be much more complex to tackle.

And of course, there are other philosophical questions involved with this topic. Is immortality even desirable, for example? Most people would like to avoid aging and disease forever, if possible, but we already have a problem with not being able to control our population growth very well, and if nobody ever died it would basically mean that we'd reach a point where nobody could ever have kids because there wouldn't be enough resources to support more people! It would also raise questions that would be very uncomfortable for a lot of people if we ended up in a situation where, lacking the inevitability of a natural death, large numbers of healthy people started wanting to die by choice. How many centuries of life can you put up with? And if a 300-year-old can legally kill themselves, at what point do you say someone isn't old enough to be able to do the same thing? These are scary questions.

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I never heard of reversing the aging process but scientist has recently discovered a way to stop the aging process in it's tracks and it will be available to the public soon. This isn't some aging cream they found a way to put a cap on the aging process they described it as putting a cap on a unraveling shoe string. It will be very expensive and it has to do with your DNA.

Google it I don't know the name of this new find but they said this will change everything and of course it will be controversal

Also I'm not talking about the scientist that found a way to stop the aging process in a single organ that was the first find in 2008 but in 2009 they figured out a way of stopping the aging process in the entire body