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Date: 01-01-00
Author: Staff
Source: Applied Genetics
Title: Immortality Is at Hand.(Brief Article)
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Immortality Is at Hand.(Brief Article)
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Issue: Jan, 2000
By the close of 2001, humankind will realize numerous scientific and medical phenomena that will revolutionize the delivery of health care. As a result, the quantity, as well as quality, of the human life span will forever be changed for the better. That is the take-home message of the Seventh International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biotechnologies, hosted by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (AAAAM), which has a membership of 8,000 physicians and scientists.
AAAAM announced the launch of LEXCORE, the life-extension core of information where participating physicians and medical centers will pool their data to establish a worldwide database for the emerging science of anti-aging medicine. LEXCORE will begin to receive its first data sets in March 2000.
Ronald M. Klatz, a medical doctor and president of AAAAM, offered a number of predictions in connection with the conference:
Baldness will be eliminated by hair-cloning and genetic therapies. Genetic therapies to halt Alzheimer's disease will become available within the next 18 months.
Age-related vision loss will be counteracted by the implantation of biochips.
Spinal-cord injuries will be reversible, perhaps within the next two years.
The number of centenarians in the world will rise from 100,000 today to 2.2 million by the year 2050. Klatz predicts an evolution to an ageless society, with the potential for practical immortality within our grasp.
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