The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.
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