Some People Alive Today May Live 1,000 Years, Biologist Says
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WASHINGTON — Aubrey de Grey may be wrong but, evidence suggests, he’s not nuts. This is a no small assertion. Mr. de Grey argues that some people alive today will live in a robust and youthful fashion for 1,000 years.
In 2005, an authoritative publication offered $20,000 to any molecular biologist who could demonstrate that Mr. de Grey’s plan for treating aging as a disease — and curing it — was “so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate.”
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