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The meiotic phosphatase GSP-2/PP1 promotes germline immortality and small RNA-mediated genome silencing. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2019 Germ cell immortality, or transgenerational maintenance of the germ line, could be promoted by mechanisms that could occur in either mitotic or meiotic germ cells.
Katherine Kretovich Billmyre +13 more
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Mechanism of immortalization [PDF]
AGE, 1999 Model systems implementing various approaches to immortalize cells have led toward further understanding of replicative senescence and carcinogenesis. Human diploid cells have a limited life span, termed replicative senescence. Because cells are terminally growth arrested during replicative senescence, it has been suggested that it acts as a tumor ...
K, Hubbard, H L, Ozer
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Non-personal immortality [PDF]
, 2023 This article explores the concept of non-personal immortality. Non-personal theories of immortality claim that even though there is no personal or individual survival of death, it is still possible to continue to exist in a non-personal state.
Gäb, Sebastian
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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Comparative Comparison of Immortality in Sadra'i Wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's Thought [PDF]
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی, 2022 The subject of the article is a comparative comparison of immortality in Sadra'i wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's thought. Mulla Sadra, based on the rule of ‘corporeal in its origination and spiritual [or incorporeal] in its survival’ (jismaniyyat al ...
hamedeh Rastaei, Kobra Najafian
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Technophany, 2023 This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles ...
Alessandra Mularoni
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THE MYTH ABOUT IMMORTALITY. FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2018 The main goal of this article is the exploration of immortality as a process of not ending life. Different forms of immortality are analyzed: metaphysical, genetic, digital and individual ones.
Ruslan V. Klymenko
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Mortality and Immortality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control group received neither.
Rablen, Matthew D., Oswald, Andrew J.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000 The concept of the force of natural selection was developed to explain the evolution of ageing. After ageing, however, comes a period in which mortality rates plateau and some individual organisms could, in theory, live forever. This late–life immortality has no presently agreed upon explanation. Two main theories have been offered.
Rose, Michael R, Mueller, Laurence D
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Hopelessly Mortal: The Role of Mortality Salience, Immortality and Trait Self-esteem in Personal Hope [PDF]
, 2015 Do people lose hope when thinking about death? Based on Terror Management Theory, we predicted that thoughts of death (i.e., mortality salience) would reduce personal hope for people low, but not high, in self-esteem, and that this reduction in hope ...
Heflick, Nathan A, Wisman, Arnaud
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