The Secrets of immortality?

Telegraph:

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Many scientists work on mechanisms that determine lifespan in "model organisms" such as worms, flies and mice but there have been persistent doubts about whether this work is really relevant to humans and whether we may yet manipulate lifespan with drugs, genetic knowledge or fine-tuning diet.

In a Review "Puzzles, promises and cure for aging" published in the journal Nature, Prof Jan Vijg at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Dr Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute, California for Age Research and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, say that "we cannot know, given the state of our current knowledge, whether an elixir of extremely long life is possible."

They argue that there is no question human lifespan will almost certainly increase modestly over the coming decades and that there is no know scientific reason why aging cannot be prevented, similar to the goal of preventing individual age-related diseases.

However, they question whether current knowledge has reached the state where postponing human ageing and natural death for many decades, possible indefinitely, is feasible, and pour cold water on claims that understanding molecules linked with longevity, such as sirtuins, provides all the answers.

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They need to hurry up. some of us are running out of time. Just imagine what we could do the the actuary tables. The death insurers would be real winners and Social Security not so much.