No I don’t mean the generation Y types born in the 1980s and 1990s I mean 1,000 year old people. I doubt it, but according to Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey - yes. And his credentials are better than mine, well I guess some of us might see who is right. ‘We will be able to live to 1,000′. Do You Want to Live Forever?:
As he surveyed the literature, de Grey reached the conclusion that there are seven distinct ingredients in the aging process, and that emerging understanding of molecular biology shows promise of one day providing appropriate technologies by which each of them might be manipulated — “perturbed,” in the jargon of biologists. He bases his certainty that there are only seven such factors on the fact that no new factor has been discovered in some twenty years, despite the flourishing state of research in the field known as biogeronÂtology, the science of aging; his certainty that he is the man to lead the crusade for endless life is based on his conception that the qualification needed to accomplish it is the mindset he brings to the problem: the goal-driven orientation of an engineer rather than the curiosity-driven orientation of the basic scientists who have made and will continue to make the laboratory discoveries that he intends to employ.
Aubrey de Grey Responds - Methuselah Mouse Man - Aubrey de Grey on TEDTalks: Aging is “an engineering problem” - The Prophet of Immortality
April 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Thank you for your interesting post!
I thought perhaps you may also find this related story interesting to you:
Longevity Science: SENS
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July 9th, 2007 at 10:21 am
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