Coordinated maintenance of H3K36/K27 methylation by histone demethylases preserves germ cell identity and immortality
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DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110050
Abstract: Summary Germ cells have evolved unique mechanisms to ensure the transmission of genetically and nongenetically encoded information, whose alteration compromises germ cell immortality. Chromatin factors play fundamental roles in these mechanisms. H3K36 and H3K27 methyltransferases… read more here.
Keywords: germ cell; methylation; h3k36; histone ... See more keywords
Self-esteem and immortality: Evidence regarding the terror management hypothesis that high self-esteem is associated with a stronger sense of symbolic immortality
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110712
Abstract: Abstract Terror Management Theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) defines self-esteem as the feeling that one is living up to the standards of their internalized cultural worldview and is consequently worthy of the symbolic and/or… read more here.
Keywords: hypothesis; self esteem; terror management; symbolic immortality ... See more keywords
How does knowledge bring one to the state of immortality in early Upaniṣadic philosophy? A new perspective on the ‘Magical’ way of cognition
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DOI: 10.1080/0048721x.2018.1466002
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Upaniṣadic philosophers believed that acquiring certain knowledge would lead them toward a state of immortality. Merely by obtaining that knowledge, they thought people could surmount the various causes of death of the natural… read more here.
Keywords: death; upani adic; knowledge; early upani ... See more keywords
Technique and the Art of Immortality, 1800–1900
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DOI: 10.1086/690578
Abstract: This essay investigates how, over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, painters, art historians, and chemists fused a bond to undo the damage they believed the industrial revolution had caused the art of… read more here.
Keywords: immortality 1800; art immortality; industrial revolution; art ... See more keywords
Forgetting in Immortality
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DOI: 10.1111/japp.12271
Abstract: In the philosophical debate about the desirability of immortality it is argued that immortality could never be desirable, since it requires us to either take on a life where none of our projects or interests… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; forgetting immortality; immortality;
Germline immortality relies on TRIM32-mediated turnover of a maternal mRNA activator in C. elegans
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn0897
Abstract: How the germ line achieves a clean transition from maternal to zygotic gene expression control is a fundamental problem in sexually reproducing organisms. Whereas several mechanisms terminate the maternal program in the soma, this combined… read more here.
Keywords: germline immortality; immortality relies; mediated turnover; relies trim32 ... See more keywords
To Be Immortal, Do Good or Evil
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DOI: 10.1177/0146167217754068
Abstract: Many people believe in immortality, but who is perceived to live on and how exactly do they live on? Seven studies reveal that good- and evil-doers are perceived to possess more immortality—albeit different kinds. Good-doers… read more here.
Keywords: studies reveal; immortality; immortal good; psychology ... See more keywords