Aging / Life extension/ Future Regenerative Therapies

sxt

Just watched an interesting cnn video where an expert in Gerontology, Aubrey de grey ( guy with beard) puts forwards thoughts regarding regenerative therapies being possible in the next couple of decades...

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/inte...mmortality.cnn


He believes that it is more important to look at repairing the damage caused by aging to the body,( Which we currently know already)rather than trying to figure out how to have complete knowlege /understanding how to prevent the processes from happening in the first place.

He believes that the first person to live to 1000 years is alive today. An idea that most people would rubbish without giving a thought to.

Does anybody believe that techonlogy will advance to a stage where aging will be controlled? I think that it is very likely to happen eventually whether it is 50 or 500 years from now based on accelerating technology advancement

He is the only outspoken scientist on this topic as far as i am aware, He believes that it is firstly important to prove a conclusive impact on the rejunative lifespan of mice , which would be a major fundemental tipping point, resulting in public pressure to look for the same results in humans

Any any thoughts on this topic?

sxt

Maybe i posted this topic 5 years too soon, i'll keep working with my mice until then:p

bleg

pfft people lived for thousands of years before, it's all in the bible, no need to do science.