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Did you know there’s a possibility the key to eternal life may be connected to an unusual creature, the lobster, according to scientists as was reported on Fox News?
Researchers have found the crustaceans have an enzyme called “telomerase,” which brands them as “biologically immortal” because their age doesn’t have a thing to do with their deaths.
The majority of living creatures DNA strands get shorter as their cells replicate and die; and after they’ve become damaged they do not copy any new cells.
According to biologist Simon Watts, founder of ReadySteadyScience.com, in lobsters, the “telomerase” actually prevents DNA strands from shortening and this allows their perfect cells to replicate again and again.
The report stated an average lobster normally weighs less than 2 pounds, but a 19 pound lobster was caught by a fisherman off the coast of Maine in 2009 and this dates the lobster’s lifespan as being about 140 years old.
Medical experts are hopeful that after further studies are conducted on “telomerase” it will provide newer ways to increase a person’s lifespan and also to help prevent cancer.
The writer of this article is Barbara Kasey Smith and it’s based on a Fox News Report.
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Fox News