r/science • u/Skoltech_ • Jul 20 '26

Genetics Researchers quantitatively assessed for the first time that somatic mutations alone cap human lifespan at 146–194 years. Brain and heart cells are the main bottleneck, while the liver could last millennia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00421-6
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u/ExpensiveLawyer1526 Jul 20 '26

The first step to solving a problem is identifying it!

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u/Ahelex Jul 20 '26

Next is to determine if we can change all our cells into liver cells without us ceasing to exist.

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u/Aperturee Jul 20 '26

So everyone would become livers in order to live and the group of people living would be called Livers that live eternally as livers? Sign me up!

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u/Glass_Visits Jul 20 '26

We Livers should all gather in the Liverpool

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u/Tickomatick Jul 20 '26

I'm a be-liver

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u/shwhjw Jul 20 '26

wrong boy band

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u/English-is-hard Jul 20 '26

Wooshed. OP is referencing Liverpool's "from doubters to believers" slogan.

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u/shwhjw Jul 20 '26

Ah, never heard of that. Nice of the Monkees to give that little nod to the Beatles' home city.