Immortal. Why hydra and jellyfish live forever, and how people to adopt their secret

Few people know that there are two forms of immortality in the world. The first is the one that we use with you and another 99% of the species of planet Earth - the preservation of DNA through the creation of offspring. The second is personal immortality. For example, some turtles and salamander, whose risk of death is the same, regardless of how old they are. They, of course, can die - from the teeth of a predator or due to an accident. But because of old age ... Fire! We are used to thinking that the most common cause of death is cancer or heart disease, but this is not entirely true. Antition is the inevitable wilting of the human body - this is the most common cause of death. If we are ready to fight the disease, then the aging process has so deeply strengthened in human experience that we perceive it as inevitability. Andrew Style, a scientific researcher, speaks of the opposite - aging is not an irreversible axiom. The author immerses us on an amazing journey through the scientific laboratory - discoveries,