The New Cell on the Block
Until recently, the scientific community relied on two main types of stem cells for research, embryonic and adult stem cells. A new discovery could put them both out of business. […]
Author Archives: lalancaster
Killing Death- Suicide
This month, I’m exploring how and if we could end death for good. The image you see is from the Manner of Death box on Alaska’s death certificate. I see […]
Killing Death- Accidents
Could we ever stamp out all causes of death, creating perfect immortality for everyone? I work for the state government of Alaska, and I often see death certificates when people […]
Death Defined II
There has been discussion about the definition of death in the news lately. My last blog was about the medical definition of death, but what about the human dimension of […]
Death Defined I
Since my book and my blog deals with the possibility of human immortality, and there is a child on life support in my novel, I need to define death. It’s […]
Genetic Surgery?
Will genetic surgery ever be possible? Could a genetic engineer take a faulty gene or two that were causing your illness, cut them out and swap in a good copy? […]
The Road to Immortality
This post is based on my current read, Long for this World, a book by science writer Jonathan Wiener. Life expectancy is the average number of years a person born […]
How Long Should We Live? Part III- Continued
I wrote the last two posts about the biological and ecological consequences of living longer, but also of doing away with death altogether. Now we come to something that intrigues […]
How long should we live? Part III- Continued
Yesterday, I broke my post into three sections. I continue today with ecological effects of the increasing human life span. Ecological- Lynx are predators that hunt snowshoe hares almost exclusively. […]
How long should we live? Part III- To Infinity and Beyond
Last week I made the argument that humans were probably meant to live long lives since our children take so long to mature. But as medical and technological advances increase […]
The Phoenix Series 