How Long Will You Live?

Cell biology gives clues to why we age and lobsters don't.
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Animations are from Emmy-winning film 'Immortal', reproduced here courtesy of December Media and Genepool Productions (previously Pemberton Films)


Special thanks to Dr. Fiona Ginty, Principal Scientist in the Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics Group at GE. Her research focuses on imaging different proteins within the cell. It's both a very powerful technique and it's beautiful.

Filmed by Raquel Nuno and Vasilios Sfinarolakis

[ucasvb]

I intend to live forever.

So far so good.

[TheBhuvan]

That's it. I'm gonna start going to the gym from now on. Gotta get those telomere gains.

[cranjismcbasketball]

Im 48 but my wife says I act like a 3 year old... does that add some years to my life?

[besmart]

Great video, Derek! Cancer immortality is even crazier when you realize that it’s a bit of your body out-evolving the other parts. Fatal natural selection (he says as he decides to do a video about cancer)

[Volound]

0:05 - AVERAGE life expectancy. most people that made it past childhood made it well, WELL past 30. this was always true.

0:13 - actually, the 80 year life expectancy is for people that were born 80 years ago. people born in the past few decades will have an even higher life expectancy than the current life expectancy. this is why life expectancy continues to rise.

[JoelCarli]

Technically, when you mention that the average life expectancy before a century ago was around 30 years, you're taking into account that a lot of the samples that go into the equation are infant mortality rates. If you managed to live into adulthood, you were likely to live much beyond the age of 30.

[frankiesomeone]

i hope to live long enough to see the first beliveable old age makeup

[ishankmahale]

A G L E T, Aglet don't forget it!

[claytonkrumm]

Step 1: control human population growth
Step 2: cure cancer
Step 3: genetic engineering
Step 4: profit

[SirNeutral]

In Mankind's epic quest to become immortal, vague lines separating the moral from immoral will be crossed by leaps and bounds! There now comes a horrifying clawed abomination from the depths, delivering our deaths from the promise of eternal life!!
LOBSTER-MAN! Terror with a side of melted butter!

[itskelvinn]

When people say life expectancy was 40 years back then, that doesnt mean people usually lived up until 40 right? Wasnt it dragged down by infant mortality because of lack of sanitation? So people still lived to 80-90 back then right?

[twonicelol]

2:40 Excuse me, that's an Aglet.

[velikiradojica]

Didn't life expectancy increase mostly due to the decrease in child mortality? Average life expectancy at 18 years in the middle ages was maybe 10 years lower than today.

[determineddaaf]

I had my midlife crisis when I were 12.
I'm such a positive person.

[wateredkirby]

would have been cool if he was aging throughout the video.

[theJellyjoker]

"Hay internet! Go watch TV!"
No thanks.

[ScandinavianLion]

My grandad was born in 1922 and is still going, he still even drives his

[malenejensen]

YES!!! FINALLY!!! I YOU!!!! And how does the world time this so perfectly for me???
I, female 19, am VERY into science, and have new questions everyday. I have been following this channel since Corona, and decided to watch every video from beginning to end. (I do that with a lot of other channels too, so it takes a lot of time).
About a month or two ago, I came across a question in my mind I hadn't thought about before. (Theres a lot in there, and im watching videos to explain every single one of them. But by doing that I find channels like this where I wanna watch every video they have, so it takes time before I get the answers.) Back to the question: How do we get old??? Like I was told cells replicate themselves all the time, and molecules and atoms doesn't get old or gets destroyed without any reason. So I really could not get my head around this one...
But thanks to this video now I can!!! <3

[killerl]

just love scientists, when they use protective glasses while using a computer

[Mikeological]

Taking "living like Larry" to the next level.