Wednesday, June 04, 2014

The end of death?

Graham Templeton says there is a Roadmap to physical immortality. One of the first steps is
genetic therapy to regenerate organs. Scientists have already met with some success regenerating organs in rodents.

The CRISPR system is already on the way to being a vastly improved method of gene delivery in adult animals, while genomics is finding more and more age-related genes. This is almost certainly the most proximate solution, but also one that’s unlikely to provide real immortality. You and most of your friends might live past 100 thanks to gene therapy, but I find it unlikely the tech could get any of you to 150.
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