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Feb
2004
Why reversing aging is easier in mammals than in flies or worms
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Flies and worms aren't amenable to stem cell therapy, among other things. Most senior gerontologists forget this and assume that everything must be easier in flies and worms than in mice. This makes them reluctant to believe that reversing aging in mice is foreseeable, since it can't "even" be done in these simpler organisms. That means they don't support grant applications to try to develop reversal of aging, and that means such work doesn't get done. This is one of my more recent attempts to change that.

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As a guide to new readers, Aubrey is doing tremendous work in the enormous task of convincing the scientific establishment to devote far more time and effort towards real anti-aging research. In addition to his directly scientific work, he is also one of the driving forces behind the Methuselah Mouse Prize:

http://www.methuselahmouse.org

You can also view a webcast of Aubrey in debate with Richard Sprott (who Executive Director of the Ellison Medical Foundation, which is in and of itself worth some time reading about).

http://www.sagecrossroads.com/public/webcasts/10/index.cfm

In addition, I should mention that Aubrey has a very impressive beard :)

Reason
Founder, Longevity Meme

Posted by: Reason at February 6, 2004 5:01 PM

I don't know why people are trying to prolong life and find a cure to aging when there's too much people on earth. Every minute a baby is born. Soon earth won't be able to support the unstoppable human population, then what?

Due to human population, many environment - wildlife habitat, quality of air we breath, forest, ocean, rivers -has been destroyed. Human being has been constantly polluting the essential element in life - water and air!

Immortalizing human life is a big mistake, as what the American indians' belief "we are passerby on this earth" and let us make it that way!

Posted by: ns at March 11, 2007 7:55 AM

Overpopulation is a myth. Grinding poverty and destruction caused by bad choices and corruption - the symptoms of which you describe - is not. See:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000972.php

Posted by: Reason at March 11, 2007 6:52 PM
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