Computational Biology / Bioinformatics/Immortality

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Expert: - 7/9/2010


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Hi I hope you don't think my question is stupid. But I was wondering is there any signs in science that say that human Immortality is possible?

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There are no signs of human immortality to my knowledge. Ageing is a universal phenomenon in living things. All living things age and die at some stage. This is true at the basic cellular level. However there in certain case, cells like cancer cells are termed immortal, in the sense that they continually divide to give new cells. However, the cell as such does not stay as it is in the same state forever.

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Sridhar Acharya Malkaram

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Sequence and Structural Analysis, Next generation sequencing, Illumina, SOLiD, CHiP-sequencing, RNA sequencing, miRNA sequencing analysis, Molecular Dynamics, Protein and Nucleic acid simulations, computational methods, Bioinformatics tools, Biological Databases, Search techniques, Protein comparative modelling, Mutation analysis

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Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Master of Science in Biotechnology Ph.D in computational Biology

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