Aubrey de Grey – Methuselah Foundation: Early 2008 Developments

clipped from www.betterhumans.com Aubrey de Grey is the Chair and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating the aging process. In this talk presented at the February Silicon Valley Transhumanist Meetup, he outlined the several most notable developments in funding and research taking place at the Methuselah Foundation in late 2007 and early 2008. The following transcript of Aubrey de Grey’s Silicon Valley Transhumanist meetup talk has been corrected and approved by the speaker. Video is also available. Methuselah Foundation: Early 2008 Developments Another area of SENS that is completely separate from cancer is the elimination of cells that won’t die. Of course cancer is a problem of having too many cells because the cells are dividing like crazy. They are also dying like crazy, but they are dividing even more crazily. That’s what cancer is.