- Aging is curable, according to the engineer José Luis Cordeiro and co-founder of Symbian, David Wood.
- Both say that in the future humans, "we will die because of accidents, but never naturally."
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Death will be optional in 2045 and aging a curable disease , as have assured the engineer José Luis Cordeiro and co - founder of Symbian OS, David Wood, during the presentation in Barcelona of his new book, "The Death of Death "(Ediciones Deusto).
The two engineers defend the scientific possibility of immortality and rejuvenation and ensure that in the coming decades humans "we will die because of accidents, but never naturally" , so consider it very important that "aging is declared as a disease "and to investigate well from the street.
Cambridge mathematician David Wood explained during the presentation, held at the Barcelona Equestrian Circle, this will be possible thanks to several technological techniques, in which nanotechnology is very important.
Thus, according to Wood, it will make it possible to edit genetics to turn the bad genes in healthy, regenerative medicine, removing dead cells from the body, treatments with stem cells, repair damaged cells and printing organs 3D.
The main objective is to "cure aging: reverse it and rejuvenate" , explained the engineer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, José Luis Cordeiro, who has already made clear that he does not think his death, and also in 30 years "will be more younger than today ".
Wood and Cordeiro, the latter Venezuelan of Spanish parents, have argued that in ten years diseases like cancer will be cured, and have argued that companies like Google "are entering the field of medicine because they have realized that cure aging is possible. "
In addition, the authors have explained that Microsoft announced a center of cryopreservation , in which one of the scientists are researching a cure for cancer in ten years.
In addition, the authors have explained that Microsoft announced a center of cryopreservation , in which one of the scientists are researching a cure for cancer in ten years.
Also they justified, "but people do not know", in 1951 it was discovered that cancer cells are immortal, ie that "cancer causes cells to stop growing old" when a patient, Henrietta Lacks, sick cervical cancer, died and the doctors removed the tumor, which "is still alive".
On the other hand, although it might seem that immortality leads to overpopulation, the authors state that still fits many people on Earth, currently people do not have as many children as old and also "may inhabit the space."
"Japan and Korea if follow current trends of non procrear- are endangered, so there will be no Japanese or Koreans in two centuries" , but said that "thanks to these techniques, if that be because they go to live forever young ".
In addition, with respect to what it would cost to undergo a rejuvenation treatment, the technologist Wood said, comparing it with smart phones, which "will be expensive at first, but with a competitive market the price will fall because it will benefit everyone."
"The technologies when they start, are bad and very expensive, but then democratized and become cheap" , added Cordeiro.
Venezuela explained that two years ago began an experimental and illegal way in Colombia, a country where there are fewer regulations, a treatment rejuvenating the first human patient, Elisabeth Parrish, a woman as pointed Venezuela "We began to see signs of aging and asked what he could do about it."
Although it has been claimed that this treatment is being done with many risks, "including illegality" , notes Wood, the treatment goes well, no side effects and the level of telomeres in blood is twenty years younger than before.
"I want to position Spain in the world with these technologies and show that we are not crazy, what happens is that people still unknown , " he concluded.
The book is scheduled to be published in four languages -Spanish, English, Portuguese and Korean - and the authors have donated the benefits of copyright to research in this discipline.
