YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER!! REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

From: http://www.thecureisnow.org/index.php/our-strategy/research-projects/aging-research

This is one of the most encouraging things I've ever heard. Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Scientist at SENS Foundation, believes that if science progresses at its current rate and it addresses the damage caused to cells by aging, we can live forever. The graph below explains the logic of living forever. The top right hand corner of the graph describes what you are like when you are born. You have your maximum level of life reserves. As you age, you use up your reserves. The first diagonal line describes your life without cellular-level repair. The blue line shows what happens if you get repaired late in life--you get about 30 more years. If you get repaired early enough you get repaired AND live long enough for the next revolution in cellular repair science. You get another 30 or so years, enough time for another scientific revolution. Those "revolutions" are represented by the jagged gold colored line. The blue dotted line is your life expectancy the younger you are.

Video about the current research of how to live forever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA1pFvfNp4

From http://www.sens.org/users/aubrey-de-grey

SENS Foundation works to develop, promote and ensure widespread access to rejuvenation biotechnologies which comprehensively address the disabilities and diseases of aging.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to combating the aging process.  His research interests encompass the characterization of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism (“damage”) that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organizations. 

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From Wikipedia:

Regenerative medicine is the "process of replacing or regenerating human cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function".^[1] This field holds the promise of regenerating damaged tissues and organs in the body by replacing damaged tissue and/or by stimulating the body's own repair mechanisms to heal previously irreparable tissues or organs. Regenerative medicine also empowers scientists to grow tissues and organs in the laboratory and safely implant them when the body cannot heal itself. Importantly, regenerative medicine has the potential to solve the problem of the shortage of organs available for donation compared to the number of patients that require life-saving organ transplantation. Depending on the source of cells, it can potentially solve the problem of organ transplant rejection if the organ's cells are derived from the patient's own tissue or cells.^[2][3][4]

Widely attributed to having first been coined by William Haseltine (founder of Human Genome Sciences),^[5] the term "Regenerative Medicine" was first found in a 1992 article on hospital administration by Leland Kaiser. Kaiser’s paper closes with a series of short paragraphs on future technologies that will impact hospitals. One such paragraph had ‘‘Regenerative Medicine’’ as a bold print title and went on to state, ‘‘A new branch of medicine will develop that attempts to change the course of chronic disease and in many instances will regenerate tired and failing organ systems.’’^[6][7]

Regenerative Medicine refers to a group of biomedical approaches to clinical therapies that may involve the use of stem cells.^[8] Examples include the injection of stem cells or progenitor cells (cell therapies); the induction of regeneration by biologically active molecules administered alone or as a secretion by infused cells (immunomodulation therapy); and transplantation of in vitro grown organs and tissues (Tissue engineering).^[9][10]

A form of regenerative medicine that recently made it into clinical practice, is the use of heparan sulfate analogues on (chronic) wound healing. Heparan sulfate analogues replace degraded heparan sulfate at the wound site. They assist the damaged tissue to heal itself by repositioning growth factors and cytokines back into the damaged extracellular matrix.^[11][12][13] For example, in abdominal wall reconstruction (like inguinal hernia repair), biologic meshesare being used with some success.