Showing posts with label limits to life span. Show all posts
Showing posts with label limits to life span. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Will robots help us to be immortal?

The second method that, according to optimists, will help us achieve immortality, is based on the following idea:

We will soon be able to design tiny robots that, introduced into our blood, will attack and destroy every pathogenic microorganism, as well every cancer cell, leaving the normal cells of the body intact. When all diseases disappear, we will automatically be immortal.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Aging and longevity

Life span of several species.
Data from Science News, 7-13-2016
It is often said that aging has been favored by natural selection to facilitate the replacement of one generation by the next. According to Alex Kowald (University of Newcastle), this statement is nonsense. It is evident that natural selection would favor individuals aging less and able to reproduce longer. Peter Medawar, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (1960), said in 1951: Wild living beings do not live long enough for natural selection to act on genes that affect aging. Death overtakes them long before they are near their limit of longevity.
Each species of living beings seems to have a maximum longevity. In humans, according to appearances, this limit does not seem to go far above 110 years. The longest proven human longevity corresponds to Jeanne Louise Calment (a French woman), who died at age 122.5.