Potentially immortal?

Becoming Immortal Becoming Immortal Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy

Dr. Carrel's immortal cells.

Cancer and the immortal strand hypothesis.

THE main causes of mortality in the Western world are largely a matter of somatic genetics. As we age, our cells accumulate more and more mutations. Eventually one of them acquires a set of changes in phenotype that allows it to generate an expanding clone of descendants, causing an atheromatous plaque in an artery or an invasive cancer. These changes are the result of a cumulative process exte...

Reassessment of Carrel's Immortal Tissue Culture Experiments

In the 1910s, Alexis Carrel [4], the French surgeon and biologist, concluded that cells are intrinsically immortal. His claim was based on chick [5]-heart tissue cultures in his laboratory that seemed to be able to proliferate forever. Carrel?s ideas about cellular immortality convinced his many contemporaries that cells could be maintained indefinitely. In the 1960s, however, Carrel?s thesis a...

Thomas Hodgkin: medical immortal and uncompromising idealist.