What is SENS? It stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.
Confused? Aubrey de Grey believes that it is possible. His research has been in the
news
recently.
De Grey is the co-founder of the
The Methuselah Foundation, and they are offering a
prize to anyone who can demonstrate
healthy life extension in mice. More information at
The Longevity Meme and
Better Humans, among
others.
He recently spoke in
Edmonton. Is it just me, or does he remind anyone else of a cult leader? There is something that strikes me about the way his writing sounds.
The idea of anti-ageing treatment was convincingly suggested by Kim Stanley Robinson in his
Mars Trilogy, which also addressed its potential social consequences, such as overpopulation and longevity as an option exclusively for the wealthy elite.
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on Feb 16, 2005 -
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