From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 17:02:27 MDT
From: Spike [mailto:spike66@comcast.net]
> From: Brett Paatsch
>
> ... part way through Stephen Hall's Merchants of Immortality...
>
>
> I saw MoI in Border's the other day and it surprised
> me that I had seen no discussion of it on extropians.
> Perhaps it was discussed during the time I was losing
> a lotta my email? Brett, has Stephen Hall any insight?
I read _Merchants of Immortality_ as soon as it was released. It's a
great read. Hall tells an engrossing story of the people and politics
involved in stem cell and embryo research. He provides a huge number
of interesting details on the history of biotech and of Geron and
Advanced Cell Technology in particular.
My one complaint about the book is that Hall pays only scant attention
to genetic interventions to slow the aging process, which is where the
real action in the field is.
So I think it's a fantastic book, well worth reading, but it's not
really about life extension.
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