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SC ( 02/14/2004, 03:36:48 )This month's issue of Discover magazine has two articles that deal with the some of the same issues we deal with when we talk about cloning. These articles can't be accessed in full at discover.com without buying a subscription, but I'll say a little about them here.Cynthia Kenyon, the scientist who found a genetic way to double the lifespans of nematode worms, has now increased their lifespans sixfold, and is working on applying her techniques to mice. A less up-to-date interview with her can be found here:http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20031020/026347.htmlWhat I found interesting about the interview in the current issue of Discover is that she devoted a significant chunk of it to saying, in effect, that there's nothing wrong with wanting to live forever, a point some of us argue when defending cloning as well.For those wondering what to say to people who argue that it's unnatural to live forever, or at least much longer, there is another article, entitled "20000+ Microbes Under the Sea," which questions that notion as well. Apparently, about 30% of all the biomass on earth consists of methane-producing microbes that live beneath the bottom of the sea, to whom oxygen is poisonous. These creatures live in such relative isolation from the microscopic predators we know that they essentially don't have to worry about being eaten, and therefore divide only once every several thousand years. Therefore, they are not only immortal in the sense that bacteria are, in that they don't age, but specific individual microbes may actually be millions of years old.If we were to add up the numbers of all living things on the earth, complex animals like us which are not immortal would probably make up a very small minority of the total.
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