The production of slightly different versions of enzymes and hormones might also lead to autoimmune disease, since the immune system might identify some of these versions as foreign proteins and subsequently launch a self-destructive attack on the body’s own cells which produce them. Dr. W. Donner Denckla thinks that part of the death genes’ process […]
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- autoimmune disease, cancer, death genes, enzymes, genes, heart disease, hormones, immune system, pituitary gland, proteins, stroke, thyroid, thyroid hormone
A Rolls-Royce lasts far longer than a Volkswagen bug, but its cost per mile is far higher than that of the bug, too. To engineer self-repair capabilities and to use long-lived components is generally more expensive than to use shorter-lived, disposable units. This is why deep space probes such as Viking, Pioneer, and Voyager are […]
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- aging, Dr. Gerald P. Hirsch, fruit flies, genes, Life extension, nematodes, repair mechanisms, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Rolls-Royce, roundworms, selfish gene, Thomas Kirkwood, Volkswagen