... seems the controlling factor is a piece of DNA called telomere (T). This telomere stops DNA from fraying, but gets shorter with each division, and eventually gets too short to protect DNA fray. This is when the cell dies (Hayflick, Mortality and Immortality', 1997). So if scientists can reverses this process (the opposite of what happens with Progeria), they ... ). But how exactly do we get from DNA to D.H.C? One of the most important issues in Brave New World was genetic engineering - whether Victor Frankenstein should have ever created the monster. And the talk of creating human organ...

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... are almost always much more powerful than the rebels. Consequently, dystopian tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it is simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. The hero (there are ... intellectual detachment, and short on "real life" drama, but that does not necessarily have to be a bad thing. It is also an interesting contrast to the majority of dyst...

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