Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice.

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51. I remember reading the following article a couple of years ago.

It sounds great until one starts imagining all of the implications and ramifications. Human life would certainly have to change drastically to adapt to living to 1000. It is rather fun (and a bit frightening) to imagine the changes that might occur.

I don't consider myself anti-science at all and certainly not pro-death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2011425/The-person-reach-150-alive--soon-live-THOUSAND-claims-scientist.html

Dawn of a new age: The first person to reach 150 is already alive... and soon we'll live to be a THOUSAND, claims scientist

Dr Aubrey De Grey also believes that the first person to live to 1,000 will be born in the next two decades

Dr Aubrey De Grey also believes that the first person to live to 1,000 will be born in the next two decades

The biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research claims that within his own lifetime doctors will have all the tools they need to 'cure' ageing.

This will be done, he believes, by banishing all diseases and extending life indefinitely.

Dr De Grey said: 'I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing ageing under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so.