Dr Aubrey de Grey, co-founder of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Foundation (SENS), thinks we are if scientists can find a cure for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and cancer.
“Most people fail to understand how fast medical science is advancing in this area. Conventional medical progress has ensured that a child born today can expect to live 120 to 150 years. I think it’s possible for them to live far longer. If we make the right breakthroughs in the next 25 years, then there is a 50:50 chance that people alive today could live to be 1,000 years old.”
Professor Mark Pepys, a biomedical researcher at University College London agrees.
“Aubrey de Grey is not crazy. He’s got serious hard-core scientists working for him that are doing great work on ageing.”
Full story: Could there be a cure for ageing? | The Telegraph
There is no doubt that in developed countries the average life expectancy is slowly increasing. If life expectancy rapidly increases in the next 25 years, is God somehow rewarding the human race? Before the flood, many people in the Old Testament lived till 900-1000 years old. After the flood the age was reduced. If we are to now live longer, has God noticed something we are doing right? Or is Aubrey de Grey meddling with life, and what are the consequences of using stem cells?
October 22nd, 2009 9:29 am
‘newtaste’? who’s that joel? have you gone group on us?
October 22nd, 2009 10:16 am
Nope. Just bringing in foreign correspondents. He is a real Australian, unlike a certain Kiwi that wishes she were.