Engineering An End to Aging

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 2, 2004 @04:19AM from the bullets-stop-aging dept.

Reason writes "Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey has put forward a biological engineering plan to end human aging and co-founded the Methuselah Mouse Prize in recent years. Now he is finally getting some of the public recognition he deserves in an excellent David Stipp article at Fortune Magazine. If you ever wondered exactly how to go about engineering away the 50 million deaths due to aging that occur each and every year - and how to bring about a sea change in the scientific establishment - then this is the place to start. As an added bonus, I don't think you'll find a more succinct (and utterly British) answer to overpopulation objections to life extension than the one at the end of this article!"

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Re:This is cute, but... by tr0p · 2004-06-02 05:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn I'm still laughing about taht

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Re:In response to the anticipated flood ... by rthille · 2004-06-02 06:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Given that you're citing Futurama, isn't that prior-art?

Oh wait, the USPTO doesn't care about that anymore :-(

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Re:In response to the anticipated flood ... by catbutt · 2004-06-02 06:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How can it be prior art? It happened in the future. Dummy.