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thundara  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Blood of 115 yo woman hints at limits of life

    Because the string regenerates itself readily in youth, but for whatever reason ceases to do so in old age.

But does this string regeneration itself carry a limited life? Perhaps hard to discuss this without talking about integrals of strings...

I guess a better question might be: Is it extrinsic or intrinsic factors that prevent string regeneration? Are the oldie stem cells old because they were damaged? Or because they were pre-programmed to wind their division down over the years?

My stem cell knowledge is poor =(