Life Extension Research

[John Newman]

On August 7, 2019 7:13:01 PM UTC, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension
>
>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life-calico-google-longevity
>https://newatlas.com/alkahest-young-blood-plasma-alzheimers-cognitive-decline/60927/
Gr>https://www.calicolabs.com/
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetics_research_organizations
>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/worlds-first-gene-edited-babies-created-in-china-claims-scientist
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Genomics_Institute
>https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2012/10/China-Genetic-Resources-Guidance.docx
>
>
>The basic science and technology needed to start
>investigating large areas of the problem space
>has been coming online over the last decade or so.
>Another ten should start to see much larger
>research efforts and distributed througout the world.
>
>The same as it chooses to eat and stitch up
>its wounds to live, Humans are wired to forever
>seek fixes to death where it can. And it now knows
>that much much more lies beyond its former magic
>and methods of bronze age scalpels and space age
>nuclear radiation, that the entire field of bioscience
>and bioengineering is still completely unexplored, that
>any given year's brick walls therein are likely penetrable.
>Thus it will do so, more and more now, at speed.

You think we'll be able to map the relevant structure of a
human brain and convert and run it on a different 
substrate (e.g. a computer) BEFORE or AFTER we have 
biological solutions that let us live forever (barring some
accident)  ?  Until we have the former and can run a brain 
as a VM with copies stashed in data centers all over the 
world (solar system), then biological death is still a danger 
(a certainty over the right time scale, although heat death
gets everything in the end).

Of course, with all these advances we make, other shit 
slows us down.  Antibiotic resistance (and other treatment
resistant forms of disease) are becoming a serious 
problem. The Earth is being ravaged, various existential
threats lurk around several corners, it's all a big race 
really.

It makes for good sci-fi.
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