Comment Immortal Mice? (Score 1) 330
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/0410239/aging-reversed-in-mice
Not so long ago, Slashdot saw this story on how scientists were able to prevent the splicing of telomeres from chromosomes in mice in order to allow not only prevention of aging, but de-aging. The only problem was that these mice inevitably died from becoming riddled with cancerous tumors.
So now that this development has occurred, are we one step closer to having mice that cannot die of natural causes?