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It's even technically guaranteed that you get cancer if get old enough. Not a biologist, but if I got that correctly, every time your body replicates your DNA
by fho 2y ago
It's even technically guaranteed that you get cancer if get old enough.
Not a biologist, but if I got that correctly, every time your body replicates your DNA a bit of the end is cut of. There is a section of "garbage" at the end, but once that is gone the "functional" parts of the DNA are cut of.
Once that happens you are guaranteed to develop tumors sooner or later.
- tux3 2y agoThe "garbage" at the end protects against cancer. It prevents cells from multiplying uncontrollably (and accumulating mutations in the process) by shortening the fuse at each generation. There's a hierarchy with stem cells at the top that live long, rarely divide, and have few mutations, and the children of the children ... of their children at the bottom divide often, but have a short fuse and a limited lifetime, so they don't keep accumulating mutations as much
- robbiep 2y agoWe’re just talking to ourselves at the moment but wait until they learn about p53 and how unless you have 2 copies you will get cancer before you’re 10