Re: Nanotech & "Transhumanism"

[ Moderator's note: To reiterate co-moderator Gordon's request, please try to
  bring the focus back to nanotech's role in this or perhaps continue the
  discussion on a more appropriate biology newsgroup. Thanks! -JimL ]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sanman) wrote in message
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> In my recollection, the haploid gamete cells are created early on, and
> don't have to undergo much somatic type replication until they are
> used in the act of conception. So your sperm cells have their original
> genetic integrity, unlike the rest of the cells in your body, which
> have multiplied many times on your way to adulthood.

***
As for male sperm cells,  they accumulate a lot of mutations with
human age, see for example published review at:

"Human longevity and parental age at conception"
 In: Sex and Longevity, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2000,
7-31.
http://longevity-science.org/Parental_Age_2000.pdf

Kind regards,

 -- Leonid Gavrilov 
Author of the book "The Biology of Life Span"
 http://longevity-science.org/index.html#Book