Researchers say one of us will live to be 1000 years young

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Cambridge gerontologist Aubrey de Grey
Cambridge gerontologist Aubrey de Grey

Would you like to live to be 1,000-years-old?

It is likely that someone living on Earth today will make it to that lofty number of years, according to research scientists who are pushing the envelope ever closer to the ten-century limit, News.Com.Au reports.

Leading the charge to virtual immortality is Cambridge gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, co-founder of Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) in California, who told News.Com.Au: “If we ask the question, ‘has the person been born who will be able to escape the ill health of old age indefinitely?’ then I would say the chances of that are very high. Probably about 80 percent.”

However de Grey, whose research focuses on repairing aging’s wear and tear on the body, allowing still-dividing cells to take over and replenish youth, is not the only one battling the encroaching effects of old age.

Largely driven by huge infusions of money from cash-rich Silicon Valley entrepreneurs hoping to buy eternity, research scientists are investigating various avenues to increase the human life span.

Google CEO Larry Page has started the California Life Company (Calico) and will build a $1.5 billion life extension research center in San Francisco, The Australian reports.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has funded the Ellison Medical Foundation and California venture capitalist Paul F. Glenn has poured hundreds of millions into Ivy League colleges’ anti-aging research. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is a supporter of SENS.

The Australian estimates: “Last year the global anti-aging market generated more than $280 billion. By 2018, it will hit $400 billion.”

Harvard Medical School genetics professor Dr. David Sinclair is investigating whether increasing the amount of the naturally occurring molecule nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) will encourage rejuvenation in cells. So far, in mice, it works, and he is planning human trials in the near future, The Australian reports.

“We will be able to live not just a little bit longer, but a lot longer, and to look younger as well. We are on the verge of a number of separate medical breakthroughs that together will allow us to live to 150. These technologies will definitely be available,” he told The Australian.

Researcher de Grey is aiming higher than that, telling Motherboard that the day when we can live to be 1,000-years-old is “going to happen, it’s just a question of when. The work I do is simply speeding up the inevitable.

“But it is very important to me, because for every day that I bring forward the defeat of aging, I’m saving 100,000 lives โ€” thirty World Trade Centers. And I’m very happy about that.”

He told News.Com.Au: “The therapies that we are working on at the moment are not going to be perfect. These therapies are going to be good enough to take middle age people, say people aged 60, and rejuvenate them thoroughly enough so they won’t be biologically 60 again until they are chronologically 90.

“That means we have essentially bought 30 years of time to figure out how to re-rejuvenate them when they are chronologically 90, so they won’t be biologically 60 for a third time until they are 120 or 150.

“I believe that 30 years is going to be very easily enough time to do that.”

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14 responses to “Researchers say one of us will live to be 1000 years young”

  1. Great! So dictators can then dictate for 1000 years. How wonderful.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Wait until you see the wrinkles on my ass at the beach by THAT time. :-)))))

      1. It will be gold upon fold of wrinkles. Great another thing not to look forward

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Could be almost like your ‘Sybian’ when you ride my ass. :-)))))

          1. Trust you to know what a sybian is. Are you trying to reveal something about your perverted kinky sexual habits?

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Did you need to research? ๐Ÿ˜‰

          3. Yes I did need to research it
            I’m a good wholesome country guy.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    The guy in the picture already has dead eyes …. weird …. age without any spirit. Hmmmm

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    So, imagine that you managed to avoid all the car accidents that others caused … and at age 850 they want you to take a driving test NOT because you were a good driver with a brain, but because insurance companies want more money out of you. Discrimination AGAIN !

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    My Proofreader Died of Ebola

    Sign me up! I look forward to celebrating my 200th birthday on Mars or maybe even Gliese 667 Cc.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Perfect Candidate … THIS is how they are going to get you past the next 950 years…. ๐Ÿ˜‰
      http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/human-hibernation-could-become-reality-says-scient/2611824/

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        Think just how much ‘Old Suntory’ one might enjoy in 1000 years!

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          I sampled a 15th century Cognac in an old estate ‘private stock’ room under a Chateaux.
          Not for sale, of course … letting that get out of ‘the hands’ would be sacrilege.

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            Patience2

            I’ve been ‘under’ a couple of chateaux, never lucky enough to sample the ‘private stock’, though.

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