Name: A roadmap to end aging
Uploaded: 2006-10-02T00:11:00Z
Duration: 22 min 34 s
Description: 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.

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.

A roadmap to end aging

Aging causes 100,000 unnecessary deaths each day, far outpacing malaria or any other single cause. By treating aging as an engineering problem, it is possible to identify and repair the seven types of biological damage that drive decline. Progress may soon allow people in middle age to gain decades of healthy life, setting off a cascade where therapies continually improve faster than age-related damage accumulates. If research accelerates, the first person to live to 1,000 could already be alive today.