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Why Isn't Longevity Science the World's Greatest Concern?


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#1 reason

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Posted 04 April 2013 - 10:10 PM


Without the biotechnologies of human rejuvenation that could be created over the next twenty years given a fully funded crash program of development, we and our descendants will all die due to the effects of aging, exactly as did our ancestors. Aging to death has never been a choice - but now it is, and every needless day of delay comes at a cost of 100,000 lives. Everyone presently alive will suffer greatly due to aging and age-related conditions unless new medical technologies of the sort envisaged by the SENS Research Foundation are developed to repair and reverse the low-level biological damage that causes of aging. So why isn't this front and center on everyone's list of concerns? Why does longevity science and the elimination of age-related suffering barely even register in public eye?

Here is a talk on this subject given at the Stanford Advancing Humanity Symposium last month by Maria Konovalenko of the Russian Science For Life Extension Foundation, an advocacy initiative:

In this talk I am sharing our wonder about why haven't the ideas of life extension won. It is not clear why isn't every person on Earth concerned with their longevity. There are several serious reasons that I mention in my presentation, but even all of them combined don't give the answer to this question. I am also looking at different possible scenarios of how the extending longevity ideas could rise to power.

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#2 treonsverdery

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Posted 05 April 2013 - 03:35 AM

awesome you reminded us all to be immortal
It prompted a thought about a new longevity technology
create microsize human progenitor cytes then have a highly motile effective bacteria bring them to the interior of living human cytes of the same kind they will become. TB as well as Ventners artificial mycoplasm actually live at the interior of human cytes absent killing them, so if a motile bacteria brings an ultramicroprogenitor human cyte to the actual same location as a preexisting cyte the regenerated cyte becomes part of the cytokine messenger rich area system rather than just a coating or blob. This solves some of the vascularization concerns of building something out of progenitor cytes

Edited by treonsverdery, 05 April 2013 - 03:37 AM.


#3 YOLF

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Posted 05 April 2013 - 03:46 PM

I love her approach. It looks like longevity is really catching on. Is it just that she is a woman, or do foreign women accept longevity and cryonics more readily?

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