Rejuvenation biotechnology: Aubrey De Grey at TEDxVienna

Aubrey De Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK and Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world's highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging. He received his BA and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000 respectively. His original field was computer science, and he did research in the private sector for six years in the area of software verification before switching to biogerontology in the mid-1990s. His research interests encompass the characterization of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism ("damage") that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations.

November 2, 2013 at Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria.

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[jessicaroberts]

Please could I direct everyone here to visit de Grey's foundation SENS and donate to make this a reality. Thank you.

[sabir]

Although the idea of immortality is incredibly appealing to me, he has not talked about the profound impact that this technology could have on the world's population. It could easily skyrocket to the point where we'd have to start living off planet, or adopt planetwide birth control laws to make sure Earth does not get overcrowded.

[DanielThomasArgueta]

I am actually first.

I'll let you know how the talk was in 18:44 ;)

[MikeHuntlol]

This guy is like the scientific version of Merlin.

[Dsilvainvesting]

I just hope that one day his theory is accomplish´d. But in my opinion, what causes us, cars and everything in this Planet to get old, is simply a gas that we call (Oxygen), and he is responsible for oxidization of cells and all the rest, . Is just my pour knowledge speaking. I am not a biologist..