Psst Wanna Live to the Age of 600?

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Just in case this wasn't posted here in August when the article was

written:

" Our life expectancy will be in the region of 5,000 years " in rich

countries in the year 2100, predicts Aubrey de Grey, a scholar at

Cambridge University .............. Roundworms are ideal

specimens for geneticists to play with because they grow old and die

in less than three weeks. By tinkering with two genes, scientists

have produced roundworms that live six times as long as

normal. ................. Other research on aging concerns human

cells. Scientists generally think there is a natural constraint, the

Hayflick limit, on how many times such cells can divide in tissue

culture before they decay and die. But some work indicates that human

cells given a copy of the telomerase gene can divide indefinitely, a

step toward immortality on a cellular scale .......... " The high

priests of our secular age, the molecular biologists, have begun to

address mortality in a way no group, no generation and no society has

ever dreamed of before, " Hall writes in his new

book, " Merchants of Immortality. "

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/12/nyt.kristof/index.html

Eclipse of the moon to start soon.

Rodney.