Aubrey de Grey: The Economics of Immortality - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

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Aubrey de Grey: The Economics of Immortality
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Aubrey de Grey explains why he is optimistic that the economy would adapt well to the new paradigm of human immortality. End of life costs are very high, but that is mostly because we are so afraid of death. We are unwilling to allow people to die even ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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Longevity scientist Aubrey de Grey sets the record straight - io9

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Longevity scientist Aubrey de Grey sets the record straight
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Aubrey de Grey, a software engineer turned gerontology expert in the UK, is known for his controversial books and lectures about how humans will eventually extend their lifespans. Currently he's the Chief Science Officer at SENS Foundation, ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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Long live and prosper - University Observer Online

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Long live and prosper
University Observer Online
Such types of damage are summarised by Aubrey de Grey, Chief Scientific Officer of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) organisation, as the 'Seven Types of Ageing Damage' in his book The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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The Science of Antiaging Chat With Aubrey de Grey and S. Jay Olshansky - Next Big Future

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The Science of Antiaging Chat With Aubrey de Grey and S. Jay Olshansky
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Jay Olshansky, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and chief science officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity that is trying to combat the aging ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper ... - Singularity Hub

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While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper ...
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During our last Google+ Hangout we got a chance to hang with longevity researcher Aubrey de Grey, author of “Ending Aging” who once proclaimed “the first person to live to 1000 was probably born by 1945.” We asked him about rectangularization, ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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Investing in the Fountain of Youth - CNBC.com

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Investing in the Fountain of Youth
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Back in 2006, Thiel gave Cambridge anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey $3.5 million under the auspices of the Methusaleh Foundation, a non-profit headquartered in Springfield, Virgina, that awards scientists who are working on life-extension therapies ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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Is Longevity Research Inherently Immoral? - Reason Online (blog)

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Is Longevity Research Inherently Immoral?
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As example of a risky anti-aging treatment, Agar then cites the proposal by theoretical biogeronlogist Aubrey de Grey to prevent cancer by halting the lengthening of telomeres. Telemores are the caps at the ends of chromosomes that become shorter as ...

Published on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 04:19:25 PM

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