Dreamer wants replies:
The bionet.molbio.ageing is a forum for very serious
yet mundane scientific ideas and discussions and it
has not yet riped to the state of pedagogical matters.
Therefore I would appreciate it, if a different newsgroup
is used/created for that purpose.
To dream about future is one thing; to unravel the
ageing-mechanism is completely different. The ageing
process leads various old age diseases and disorders
which cause untold misery. The major aim of research
in this topic is to solve these problems first.
Nevertheless, in order not to discourage anyone from
participating in this newsgroup (and due to the lack
of a general newsgroup to discuss such issues), here
are some questions to dreamer:
Have you ever dreamt of being 200 years old and the
possible world around you? What kind of relations and
friends you would have? What kind of job you will be
doing?
If everyone wants to live to eternity and still want
to reproduce their own kind, what would be the fate
of earth?
"I pay tax and therefore I have the right to know
the results of ageing-research" will lead to
everyone being immortal and the above situation
will be inevitable. Does it mean the results of
ageing-research can be classified?
There are various mind boggling issues which would arise
from political, philosophical backgrounds once there
is significant progress in ageing research. However, it
is still very far. Therefore I am going back to my work
on phosphoglucomutase protein found in human heart and which
is very essential for glucose activity and also why one
of its domains strikingly resemble the heart itself!
Good Luck to you dreamer. Have a nice day.
barani at mace.cc.purdue.edu
