[extropy-chat] Pravda on de Grey and the quest for immortality

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Pravda Online; Contemporary scientists are still trying to unveil the
mystery of immortality: they are working with mitochondria - so-called
power plant of a cell, which generates power owing to the adenosine
triphosphoric acid synthesis. The works in this direction are being
conducted most actively in several countries of the globe, in Russia
and England first and foremost.
Russian academician, Vladimir Skulachev, from the Institute of the
Physicochemical Biology of the Moscow State University has made the
biggest progress on the way to realize the biggest dream of the
mankind. "Old age is virtually an illness. It must be cured like
cancer. If I cure a person of his old age, I will cure him of cancer
too, age diseases.
English geneticist from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Aubrey de
Grey, works with mitochondria too. The scientist believes that the
life span of a human being will reach a thousand and even more years.
De Grey chairs the SENS project at Cambridge (Strategies for
Engineered Negligible Senescence), which studies all possibilities to
solve the epoch-making problem. The project's first priority is
connected with the restoration of seven major types of molecular and
cellular damage. De Grey said that he would need ten years to develop
a solution for mice and another ten years to bring the technology into
the world of humans.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/14828_immortality.html