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Augmenting breasts or prolonging erections may be vain and even a waste of scarce resources, but seeking to use our knowledge to enhance our vision, memory, learning skills, immunity, or metabolism is not obviously either.
He also told them, "I've led a very full life, a good life, and I don't want to ruin it by prolonging it any further.
Also, without presenting scientific or reliable evidence, the report presents the opinion that research into prolonging healthy life may result in a lifetime obsession with immortality.
Third, mismatches between the set respiratory rate and the patient's respiratory rate were not recognized, potentially prolonging the need for ventilatory support secondary to fatigue of the respiratory muscles.
Instead, in the mid '80s it was found that the activation of co-stimulatory molecules like CD28 expressed by T cells via ligands such as B7 expressed by antigen presenting cells (APC), deliver additional signals that synergize with those emanating from the TCR, and result in maximal IL-2 gene transcription [ 23 ] . As well, CD28 activation stabilizes IL-2 mRNA transcripts, prolonging IL-2 mRNA life span [ 24 ] . Thus, in addition to soluble macrophage-derived products, cell surface molecules expressed by APCs also contribute to the 2 ndsignal attributed to the APCs.