and human rights
The Science, Technology and Utopian Visions Working Group and the Whitney Humanities Center will sponsor a talk by Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge in England, on Wednesday, May 31.
Titled "Life Extension, Human Rights and the Rational Refinement of Repugnance," de Grey's talk will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The talk is open to the public free of charge. For more information e-mail bonnie.kaplan@yale.edu.
De Grey is the editor of Rejuvenation Research. His research interests encompass the etiology of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or counteract that damage. He has developed a plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks the aging problem down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one.
A key aspect of SENS is that it can potentially extend healthy lifespan without limit, even though these repair processes will never be perfect, as the repair only needs to approach perfection rapidly enough to keep the overall level of damage below pathogenic levels.
De Grey's research has been featured in Science, CBS's "60 Minutes," the BBC, Wired Magazine, Popular Science, Fortune, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, London's Sunday Times and Slate.
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