Biologist's Twitter Thread About Lobsters' Deal With The Devil Is Monstrously Entertaining

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Feb 16, 2019 8:00 PM EST

I just want to see the 10,000-year-old lobster. 

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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Follow [bong rip] [exhale] lobsters made a deal with the devil for conditional immortality and it backfired on them. you cannot change my mind 11:41 AM 21 Jun 2018 28,755 Retweets 106,452 Likes ti 29K 565 106K Tweet your reply labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, JORDAN PETERSON ti134 7 2.9K
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    Lobster - AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride ok so basically lobsters do not die of old age. the only thing time does to a lobster is make it bigger and bigger, if environmental conditions are good this is because they have a secret molecular trick over all of us senescent rubes: constant production of telomerase t 2.7K 82 14K abcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 this Grade-A Big Boy is massive- 22 lbs, easily 50 years old. but it isn't even as big as the largest lobster
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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride + AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 Telomeres are like shoelace caps on the ends of your chromosomes- a buffer zone, codes for nothing, keeps it from unwraveling look, here's yours, the little white spots on these human chromosomes how do these things relate to our inevitable decline into death? here's the deal t504 4.9K 32 labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 It's one sequence, over and over, for humans: TTAGGG every time your cells divide, they lose a little b
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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 There's something called the Hayflick limit, and that's why you and I die When the telomeres reach a critical length, the cells just stop dividing guess I'll die ti 635 12 7.5K
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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride + AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 "fuck the Hayflick limit, I do what I want" is the motto of cancer, and the motto of lobsters because they produce heaps of telomerase. telomerase is a really nifty enzyme, it carries its own RNA template to build back the lost ends of the telomeres! 5 TR gAUCCCAAU GGGTTAGG IIIII DNA TERT GIF telomerase.asu.edu t597 25 5.6K labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride + AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 Humans make telomerase too. But we make less and less as we age.
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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride + AC @JUNIUS 64 .Jun 21 Death is still an inevitability though, whether our biology encodes a plan for it or not entropy always comes for its due, and that's what even lobsters must accept t 404 14 4.5K AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride lobsters still lose in the very end. Telomerase tricks buy time, they will never experience senescence- the decline towards death- but it still comes at some point that point is typically molting t 281 6 3.9K labc
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    Text - labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 An ancient lobster colossus may not have as many predator concerns during a molt, compared to the young'uns (still watch out for sea turtles tho) but the energy costs are what kills. Moving out of an enormous shell takes an enormous effort past a certain point they just can't t 266 3.7K 6 labcoat lesbian @ NYC Pride AC @JUNIUS 64 Jun 21 at a certain point, the effort of moving out just cannot be mustered by their metabolism. it's done. when
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