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The biggest problems re going to be cancer, genetic problems that only arise as we age, and perhaps most important of all, neurodegenerative diseases. The problem is that our cells are pre-programmed to only divide a fixed number of times, hence why stem cells help, but even they are limited. When this is "fixed" so the cells can divide indefinitely, it tends to turn into cancer, which is probably one reason this mechanism evolved in the first place.


Seems like nature got away with a bad hack. It slapped on an arbitrary int to cap cell division and called it good.




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