The Chronicle has a longish profile of British longevity researcher Aubrey de Grey, outlining his seven-step plan to cure aging. He claims to have already saved hundreds of thousands of people from dying of old age.
His approach, which he has dubbed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, draws from different branches of science and medicine and is enough to spin the heads of specialists and nonspecialists alike. It has also caused a stir, something Mr. de Grey certainly knows how to do. "One hundred and fifty thousand people die every day, and two-thirds of those die of aging in one way or the other," he says, while nursing a pint of fine English ale. "If I speed up the cure for aging by one day, then I've saved 100,000 people." He pauses thoughtfully for a moment. "Actually, I probably do that every week."
Link (Previous de Gray coverage on Boing Boing)
