Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life 333
porkchop_d_clown (39923) writes "When Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died in 2005, she was the oldest woman in the world. [New Scientist reported Wednesday] that, at the end of her life, most of her white blood cells had been produced by just two stem cells — implying the rest of her blood stem cells had already died, and hinting at a possible limit to the human life span."
Old News (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't this old news?
Oh, so somebody's an expert? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Strange conclusion (Score:5, Funny)
Who Wants To Live Forever (Score:4, Funny)
Who dares to love forever,
When love must die.
---Queen
Re:Not an upper limit (Score:5, Funny)
One solution would also be to stop people reproducing until after a certain age.
I look forward to the movie based on this premise, Logan's Booty Run.
Re:Old News (Score:3, Funny)
Isn't this old news?
I see what you did there.
Re:Bank them (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bank them (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, science has just identified the thing that needs to be tricked. We just need fresh stem cells. I, for one, am going to assure that I get a steady supply of stem cells by eating a baby for breakfast each morning.
Re:Strange conclusion (Score:5, Funny)
Do you know about soup?
So, bathing in virgin's blood... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Bank them (Score:5, Funny)
There's a cremation service in the US that you can sign up for that will be ... aggressive ... in seeing your body cremated according to your wishes, (relatively) cheaply and quickly. Their market is precisely people who want to trump their family on this issue. But I'm blocking on the company name - anyone?
Soylent.