In Pursuit of Longevity

Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence), speaks at the Singularity University about human longevity and the future of regenerative medicine. He makes clear that he and his foundation are not about immortality, but about stopping people from getting sick–ending the diseases of aging. He believes we can do this within the next couple of decades. He has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage

de Grey talks a mile a minute and packs a lot of very interesting information in this just under an hour lecture. He’s an obvious genius, but he’s made this discussion easy to comprehend.

And he’s got one hell of a beard.

Dr. de Grey is also an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, and author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).

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