Healing With Stem Cells-STAP Cells
For the novel I’m writing, I need a stem cell that can form inside the human body and rejeuvenate and heal characters. iPS cells, the ones I reported on last […]
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Healing With Stem Cells- iPS Cells
What is the difference between a stem cell that could re-build a sick or damaged body and a specialized, mature cell? Four genes. A number of cells shut off once […]
Healing With Stem Cells- Somatic Cells
Stem cells are un-specialized cells which can divide many times before becoming specialized. Since these cells were discovered, it’s left us wondering what they could do if we harnessed them. […]
Human Immortality In Literature
People have always dreamed about immortality. The Epic of Gilgamesh, 4,000 years old and thought to be the first work of literature in human history, is the tale of a […]
Leap Forward…One Second
If you are reading this in a post-apocolyptic world, it is because the moment this was posted, 3:59:59, Alaska Time, there was a leap second. Air traffic controll towers and […]
Immortal Trash
A week ago in the grocery store checkout line, someone condescendingly asked me why I use cloth bags. I was surprised soI uttered something like, “I can’t throw them away […]
An Eternal Student
If you would never age and never die, would you ever get tired of living?If you asked me ten years ago, I would have said no. Now I’m not so […]
Modern Immortals: Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones
We’ve all seen some pretty wacky political candidates, but Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones (1797-no real surprise 1868) might beat them all. He ran for each presidential election from the 1840s until […]
In Memoriam- Sue Ann Bowling-Scientist, Author
Once a discussion with some of my author friends wandered toward immortality. We asked “if we were immortal would we ever become tired of living?” Most said probably, that they’d […]
Your Age and Music
It’s my birthday today, and according to a new study based on music people stream on Spotify, I’m at the edge of where I will stop liking popular music. The […]
The Phoenix Series 