Dr Aubrey de Grey says we could just do it: avoid ageing and stay completely healthy until we die, perhaps some 1,000 years after we are born. That is well past the age of 969 that Biblical figure Methuselah lived. Grey is not a crusader in search of the elusive Methuselah gene or immortality; he is a researcher, a gerontologist, a rogue one at that, who is determined to wage a war on ageing.
One of the most impassioned advocates for a longer, healthy life, he sees no difference between age-related disorders and malaria or leprosy because, according to him, they are all “diseases” that must be eliminated. A controversial biomedical gerontologist, he has often talked about a “maintenance approach” to extend healthy life by constantly curing disabilities and diseases of old age. The 47-year-old Grey’s prophet-like looks and charm leave his arguments more compelling and, maybe, convincing.
The chief science officer for SENS Foundation in Cambridge, England, the nonprofit charity that focuses on combating diseases of old age, says he and his organisation are committed to developing, promoting and ensuring widespread access to regenerative medicine solutions that “cure” ageing. The editor-in-chief of Rejuvenation Research tells Ullekh N.P. that countries such as India and China must make the most of the recent advances in regenerative medicine and cut monumental costs of old age. Grey, author of Ending Aging, also confesses that he dislikes being called the “prophet of immortality”.
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Ullekh NP 