How to end aging: Aubrey de Grey at TEDxOxbridge

Biotechnologist Aubrey de Grey talks about aging as a disease — and how it can be cured.

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[JJ-fjjs]

He's given this talk before & i still enjoyed it.

[tonyreno]

I still can't fathom how this has not caught on yet. People are sleep walking though life missing the fact that we live in a time when, with even a modest focus, aging can be solved for all time.

We live in a time when it is possible to reach a boundless future. We are the first to live in that time. In fact we are the only people to live in that time.

Very soon, in historical terms, aging will be solved for good.

De Grey and SENS are one of only 2 options now facing us that give us the chance to transcend this historical accident and make it to the other side.

[Lastindependentthinker]

First we thought we aged because of telomere shortening, and are still trying to work-out how to extend them. Then we found stem cells that can become the different cells that become the different organs of the human body. Recently we have found that it is waves of proteins that control the stem cells and tell them what cells and organs to become. and more recently we have found that a growth hormone controls the proteins that instructs the above. We have a good understanding of whats going on.