immortal

Examples of immortal in the following topics:

• Increased Cancer Risk from Radiation

  • The development of cancer can be divided into three major stages: morphological changes to the cell, acquisition of cellular immortality, and adaptations that favor tumor formation.

• Regulation of the Cell Cycle by External Events

  • When a daughter cell divides, it turns into two new cells, which would lead to the assumption that each cell is capable of being immortal as long as its descendants can continue to divide.

• The Qin Dynasty

  • He became increasingly obsessed with immortality and employed many alchemists and sorcerers.
  • Ironically, he ultimately died by poisoning in 210 BCE when he drank an "immortality potion. "

• Theism and Monotheism

  • They are usually immortal, and are commonly assumed to have personalities, consciousness and intellects comparable (albeit superior) to those of humans.

• The Southwest

  • Among Hopi ritual art is the kachina figure, which is to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act as messengers between humans and the spirit world.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • Jade was used to create many utilitarian and ceremonial objects, ranging from indoor decorative items to jade burial suits, reflecting the ancient Chinese belief that jades would confer immortality or prolong life and prevent decay.

• Shang Religion

  • Archaeologists have found Shang tombs surrounded by the skulls and bodies of human sacrifices, and containing jade, which was seen to protect against decay and give immortality.

• Freedom of Expression and its Limits

  • A 1646 Massachusetts law, for example, punished persons who denied the immortality of the soul.

• Humans and Their Deities

  • Deities are often thought to be immortal, and are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess consciousness, intellects, desires, and emotions comparable but usually superior to those of humans.

• Muscle Development

  • Human embryonic stem cells are pluripotent; that is, they can differentiate into any of the cell types present in the adult human, and into any of the intermediate progenitor cell types that eventually turn into the adult cell lines. hESCs are also immortal: they can divide and grow in number indefinitely, without undergoing either differentiation or cellular aging (cellular senescence).