Bill DeWitt wrote in message <389ca708@news.povray.org>...
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>"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricy net> wrote :
>>
>> what will the life expectancy of a child born in say 2050 be considering
>> the pace of technological development and the recent and probable future
>> discoveries of medical science.
>>
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> Last thing I heard is that unless there is a genetic breakthrough, 150
>is about it. Something about the maximum number of times a cell will
replace
>itself.
They've found the breakthrough: an enzyme that repairs the ends of DNA
strands. The only problem with it is that activating this enzyme will
increas the chance that you will get cancer.
Mark
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