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- Who would not seize the chance to live to be 150?
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With his scruffy jeans, piercing blue eyes and long red beard, Aubrey de Grey looks every inch the eccentric scientist. But in the past year, this self-taught biogerontologist, based in Cambridge university's genetics department, has attracted serious attention for his theories about ageing.
- Aubrey de Grey Featured in Fortune Magazine
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THE END OF AGING
Aubrey de Grey Would Have You Live a Really, Really, Really, Really Long Time. Absent-mindedly stroking his Rip van Winkle beard, Aubrey de Grey recalls when he first realized how humans might halt the process of growing old. His "Eureka!" came at a research meeting in California four years ago. Jet-lagged and wide awake at 4 a.m., the British scientist posed himself a simple question: "What would it take to bioengineer a nonaging human?" The light dawned as he scribbled a list—it seemed that only seven things had to be prevented, mainly toxic byproducts of metabolism that accumulate in the body over time. "I realized that we could bloody well fix them all," he says. "We could go in and periodically clean up the seven deadly things before they cause problems."
- Mice may hold key to longevity
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(CNN) -- A scientist awarded a prize for keeping elderly mice alive beyond their normal life spans believes his work could help slow human aging and unlock cures for diseases associated with old age, such as cancer and heart disease.
Stephen Spindler, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California at Riverside, told CNN that several scientists were working on ways for humans to live beyond the current record of 122.
He said research into increasing longevity was not only about living longer but also about making life more enjoyable by eliminating diseases of old age.