Aubrey de Grey recently put together an excellent review of Coping With Methuselah: The Impact of Molecular Biology on Medicine and Society for PLoS Biology. The contributing authors of this book dramatically underestimate the potential for near term radical extension of the healthy human life span. This has serious consequences: underestimation by people who influence the funding of medical research is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Aubrey de Grey is - as always - happy to explain in detail how this happens and how we can better move ahead in the field of serious anti-aging research. A future without frailty and death is a beautiful future indeed. We can and must work harder to achieve it.
Link: http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020187