Immortal humans may have already been born

Immortal humans may have already been born
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The first human beings who could escape the ill-health of old age indefinitely may have already been born, a Cambridge scientist has claimed. \"If we ask the question: \'Has the person been born who will be able to escape the ill health of old age indefinitely?\' Then I would say the chances of that are very high,\" said gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.

London: The first human beings who could escape the ill-health of old age indefinitely may have already been born, a Cambridge scientist has claimed. "If we ask the question: 'Has the person been born who will be able to escape the ill health of old age indefinitely?' Then I would say the chances of that are very high," said gerontologist Aubrey de Grey.

"Probably about 80 per cent," said de Grey, co-founder of the California-based Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Research Foundation. "The first thing I want to do is get rid of the use of this word immortality, because it's enormously damaging, it is not just wrong, it is damaging," de Grey told the Motherboard website. "It means zero risk of death from any cause - whereas I just work on one particular cause of death, namely ageing," said de Grey.

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