Human Immortality: Can science rescue us from death?
Human Immortality: Can science rescue us from death? As science continues to explore the mysteries of the human body and life expectancy continues to increase, one important question arises: could humans one day become immortal? Death is the ultimate price of being born in this beautiful world. It is merely the result of a natural phenomenon - the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy, that states about the ultimate demise of all systems, from the sun and humans to the universe itself. But the desire to live forever and the dread of dying are the two primary forces propelling mankind's search for immortality. We are, quite possibly, living in the most amazing period of human history, the transition between the last mortal generation and the first immortal generation. The invertebrate Hydra have already attained mysterious immortality. They are predominantly made up of stem cells that constantly divide to produce new cells while s