Video Analysis: Can We Live Forever?

There are various genetic changes that people can experience the ill effects of that will presumably never be finished unless we effectively mediate and genetic engineering the cutting edge to withstand these issues. Case in point, Cystic Fibrosis, a dynamic and risky sickness for which there is no known cure, could be totally cured and annihilated with the assistance of particular genetic engineering, so it can almost never aging effect humans.

Organ donation provided a new therapeutic path when new drugs and devices failed to reduce the mortality and morbidity rate of patients with such illnesses as cardiovascular diseases. By replacing damaged organs or tissue with a functioning substitute, organ transplantation offers an immediate cure. Unfortunately, this “cure” is never guaranteed because of the high risk of graft rejection and that’s if a suitable donor can be found. Thus, tissue engineering has been the projected new treatment for these problems. Tissue engineering replaces the diseased or damaged tissue or organs with biofabricated counterparts made using the specifications dictated by the features of the specific tissue or organ.

With the latest medical advances in processing, preserving and storing, organs and tissues can be maintained for a much longer period. In addition to this, work on xenotransplantation ( animal to human transplantation) and stem cell research shows promising results in the near future. Regardless of all this, the gap between demand and supply is continuously widening with a patient being added to the waiting list every ten

Scientist have seen that telomerase expressing clones have no difference in karyotype but have a long lifespan by 20 doublings. With this research, cells have been seen to have a very youthful looking state for much longer. A last area of study is the hypothalamus of the brain. This part of the brain controls reproduction, growth, metabolism, and aging. This is where many of the age related diseases occur. The study of this area can lead to many advancements in age related diseases that can help people live longer. Though this area of study does not have many advancements it holds promising results. Though there have been numerous advancements, many people ask the question whether people need to live longer because of an already over populated Earth.

Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks presented an intriguing concept; cell immortality. Many have pondered the idea that one day science will progress enough to make a human immortal. To this day, science has been able to reveal the properties that make cells immortal yet research has not discovered a way to modify humans to give them this incredible quality. It is known that a cell can undergo a series of replications before it reaches senescence, known as cell death.

They were being sent off to many places to be testing many different ways. During this time, Alexis Carrel successfully grew a chicken heart out of the body of a chicken. This was publicly announced on TV, newspaper, and radio. Most people thought that this would change the way of life, giving people immortal life. After years of keeping the heart alive, most started thinking it was just a big hoax and giving people a false sense of hope. Then after Alexis Carrel died, his assistant “accidently” threw away the heart. One scientist found out that Carrel kept the heart alive by “feeding” the heart new cells every now and then because the old cells had kept

The heart was just beneath the rib cage and it came out perfectly intact. When we took out the heart, we had to crack the rib cage some. We could also see the inferior and superior vena cava. To get to the tongue and take it out we had to break the jaw bone and just pull the tongue out. It came out perfectly.

It may be disturbing to hear those procedures described: “… we’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

The artificial heart supports the body just like a normal heart would, pumping blood around the body. The artificial hearts are used when the original heart is damaged and needs time to recover. The artificial heart can replace the function of the person’s original heart for either a short period of time while a donor heart is being sort or for the duration of the person’s life.

Nothing is eternal. Even the most sophisticated of machines break. The human body is one of those sophisticated machines. Sometimes, the immune

Today there are nearly 5,000 people waiting for a donated heart. There are not nearly enough donated hearts to meet this demand. Unfortunately, many of these patients will die before a suitable heart is ready for them. Giving these patients a custom grown human heart is an option that would save many lives. Until very recently this was just a pipe dream.

It is impossible because of how intricate the human body is and how complex its system works. It is said that Frankenstein used dead organs to assemble a human; however, it is impossible to understand the human body so intricately. Furthermore, it is impossible to be able to connect the arteries, capillaries, and veins to the exact position they should be. Also, once a human is dead, there is no possible way to revive him or her, unless God gives us the will to restart him or her. Maybe in the far future a scientist will be smart enough to connect all the dots and create a ‘human’. However, that scientist wouldn’t be able to create a soul; and without a soul, a human can’t be

An average of 16 people die in Europe each day without getting the organ they need to survive. 22 people die each day in the United States without getting the organ they need, too. All of these people who die are waiting for organs such like a liver, heart, and other organs that will help keep them alive. The scientists looked at the statistics and wanted to start to develop new organs and body parts to save the patients that are waiting for them. The scientists thought they could start by growing them in a laboratory and make them out of stem cells. They have been struggling with the development of the organs and the progress has been slowed. Other scientists have another theory in how to create a fully functioning organ. They think that everyone should let nature take over and let evolutions happen. Evolutions has helped cells adapt to outside environments and turned our cells into complex molecules that help us survive. The scientists also think that they could use an animal's’ kidney, liver, lungs, heart, and other organs that are useful to keep ourselves alive. Those organs can come from animals, like pigs, because they have somewhat the same kind of organs we have. The only problem that can occur during the operation is that, when you use transfer the heart from a pig, or another animal, our immune system will reject the transplant. People who have been studying about growing human

In a world where life expectancy has increased tremendously over the last century because of new technology and medical procedures, we find humanity ever pushing the boundaries on what it can do to prevent loss of life where possible. One example is the area of organ donation and transplantation. However, unlike many other technologies or procedures which can be built, manufactured, or learned, organ transplantation requires one thing that we can’t create yet: an organ itself. Because our increased life span causes more people to require a replacement organ when theirs starts to fail, the demand has far outrun the supply and the future only looks to get worse. “Between the years 1988 and 2006 the number of transplants doubled, but the

On January, 2008, Doris Taylor, director, Center for Cardiovascular Repair, University of Minnesota used the core procedure of decellularisation to let hearts from animal cadavers beat by infusing live cells. The research