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After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?

What makes a life worth living as you grow older?

Libertarian transhumanist Zoltan Istvan is running for Governor of California in 2018 and, among other things, he wants to conquer aging and death for all!

Could humans someday live to be 1,000 years old? Life extension and radical longevity are rising topics of conversation among futurist circles... and wealthy tech entrepreneurs are listening.

Eliminating the estate tax makes no sense in a meritocratic system, yet most Americans are against the so-called "death tax." The reasons why range from the hypocritical to the woefully ignorant.

In the developed world, the fight against infectious disease has largely been won. Anti-aging advocates say medical research should now concentrate on slowing the process of aging. 

Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey likens the human body to a VW bug. In the future, medicine will enable us to replace our aging parts, extending life far beyond current limits. 

Even if we develop technologies that preserve our lives forever, we should still decline the offer, says metaphysician Stephen Cave. Meaningful lives require a time limit, he argues.

What’s the Big Idea? At TEDxSummit 2012, Hans Rosling predicted that mankind’s population threshold will be 10 Billion people. His talk was entitled Religion and Babies, as his goal was […]

Aging is just another non-infectious disease, like Alzheimer's, diabetes or cancer, says Aubrey de Grey. We might be able to cure it using the protective sequences of our own DNA.

So you want to live forever? Double-check your motives, says ethicist Paul Root Wolpe. 

Ageing and death are not something human beings generally look forward to but biologists say that immortality could prove a disadvantage to the survival of our species.

Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey wants to reverse the aging process, enabling people to lead long, very long, active lives. He believes immortality is within our grasp. 

I’m about to give the last talk at the BILPIL conference (an un-conference version of TEDMED, an event that celebrates conversations on innovative health and medicine). This presentation is my effort at exploring both of those tracks (private market solutions and public reform) and figure out how they work together. I’m still learning this stuff, so please give me your feedback!

In 15 to 20 years, says futurist Ray Kurzweil, a biotechnology revolution will yield powerful ways for us to reprogram our genes. Our bodies will be altered on the genetic […]

We have all sat through the laborious exercise of having a family picture taken. The end result of the chaos is typical across almost all families: a happy picture showing two gray […]

British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and nine other co-authors are urging the United States and other nations to "set up a Project Apollo-scale initiative to avert the coming 'global aging crisis.'"

August may be behind us, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped thinking dangerously here at Big Think. At the end of last month, we asked readers to submit their own dangerous […]

What does the future look like? We essentially rely on science fiction thrillers to give us a taste of what lies ahead for humanity: Avatar; Iron Man; I, Robot; Surrogates; […]

At a certain point in time—perhaps sooner than most people think—the ever-increasing average human lifespan will begin accelerating faster than people age. This moment, according to anti-aging expert Aubrey de […]

Aubrey de Grey is not a worrier—he is content to try to make a difference with his life.

Aubrey de Grey’s worst career advice was to aim low.

Aubrey de Grey explains why savoring small victories is the key to overcoming seemingly impossible challenges in science.

Aubrey de Grey recalls how he was inspired by his single mother to pursue a scientific career at a young age.

There are no more major breakthroughs necessary to complete the quixotic human quest of achieving immortality, says anti-aging expert Aubrey de Grey.

Aubrey de Grey says that cancer is humanity’s biggest impediment to defeating aging, but he has a plan for defeating the disease for good.

Aubrey de Grey explains that his work on eliminating aging has encountered a surprising amount of criticism—and has also attracted an unlikely group of supporters.

Aubrey de Grey has a problem with the concept of dying of natural causes; he contends that a “natural” death is really the result of a preventable “lifelong accumulation of […]

Anti-aging expert Aubrey de Grey gives his advice on how to extend your life long enough to be around when scientists find the secret of immortality.

Would an ageless society be a more humane society? Aubrey de Grey explains why he believes that, when we defeat aging, the world will band together to finally solve the […]