From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 09:47:07 MDT
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Reason wrote:
> a) the gene-and-protein-expression-tinkerers have figured out a pill/therapy
> that does the same thing as CR.
This is going to be *very* tricky -- you have to tell most of cells
in the body to enter a CR state but you have to tell the appetite
sensing mechanisms in the brain that you *aren't* CR.
> b) regenerative medicine can fix most of the major degenerative diseases and
> researchers are starting in on building therapies for the root causes of
> aging.
Real fixes are probably going to require biobots or nanobots. Until we
have them we will just be in postponement mode.
> If neither has happened in a decade from now, I, for one, will be
> disappointed.
I'm guessing we will probably have biobots before we really understand
enough to program them to help deal with the problem. We really need
the elephant and bowhead (or blue) whale genomes and we aren't likely
to get those until late in the decade. And we probably will not get
nanobots for 20 years minimum.
Robert
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