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Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

http://www.ted.com Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted. TED...  
 
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Danielnoctis (1 day ago) Show Hide
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I thought it was relevant in all languages, in our language at least goes like this:
Cancer's are divided into two categories: male and female. the first not being able to re-multiply itself while the second completely capable to. Otherwise known as Malignancy. When a cancer is malignant it almost always can't be cured, when not it is curable.
omegavalerius (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Well I suppose if you can replenish the telameres in the ends of your chromosomes in every cell of your body indefinitely or fix the copying system so that you don't loose a bit of it each time you make a copy of your DNA.

Or you could just be happy in the knowledge that you are extremely lucky to have born at all in the first place contemplating all the people who could be in your place.
shreyesh (1 day ago) Show Hide
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A debate over the validity of the de Grey's theories on ageing was published in MIT's Technology Review. In the end, none of the challengers to de Grey were able to convince the judges that SENS was "so wrong that it is unworthy of learned debate."
NiceLikeRice13 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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I can't understand him through his 'stache!!!!
Suwat45 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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It's not possible for anyone to live forever.
NiceLikeRice13 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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@Suwat45

...no way!?  -.-
Suwat45 (2 days ago)
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bigbadwolf3567 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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its not about living forever, were you fkn listening?its about extending our life span
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id love to b able 2 understand wtf hes talk about
kingmaxim187 (4 days ago) Show Hide
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this must be solved. the so called modern society is mostly just a bunch of retards running around. get back to science becuz this is DEAD SERIOUS.

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