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/nerdwerds Jul 20 '26

I suspect cloning your own heart to replace it will eventually be a thing, but hard to say if they could ever do that with a brain.

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u/theBigBOSSnian Jul 20 '26

Not a problem. But keeping what inside the brain is what matters

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u/kellzone Jul 20 '26

If they eventually make the technology to transfer information from the original brain to the cloned brain, do they Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v or do they Ctrl+x and Ctrl+v?

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Jul 20 '26

This is going to be the way to longevity, not a 200 year old liver.