Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey – advocate for an indefinite human lifespan

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Douglas Lain Aubrey De Grey

Advancing Conversations

Aubrey de Grey – advocate for an indefinite human lifespan

Douglas Lain, Aubrey De Grey

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English

Zero Books
24 June 2016

Age groups: the elderly

Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future oriented. De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2005 a panel of scientists and doctors from MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Microsoft, and the Venter Institute participated in a contest to judge whether de Grey's ""Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence"" were worthy of debate and verification or whether these ideas were wrong on their face. The panel found that de Grey's proposals for intervening in the aging process, while speculative, often ""ran parallel to existing research"" and were not ""demonstrably wrong.""

By: Douglas Lain, Aubrey De Grey
Imprint: Zero Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 106g
ISBN: 9781785353963
ISBN 10: 1785353969
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 24 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Douglas Lain is the publisher of Zero Books. He is also a writer, blogger, and the podcaster behind Zero Squared.