Increasing Longevity by Chaning the Alzheimer's Gene - VERY exciting work

[housewolf]

This is potentially extraordinarily exciting work that could impact human health in very positive ways

http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/dillin1207

No One Wants to Live Forever
But we would like to be young for as long as we live. Andy Dillin and his team at the Salk Institute are making that dream come true.
By Tom Junod

Andy Dillin is a young man. He is thirty-six years old, and he is just getting started.

He works as a molecular biologist and geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Over the past year, he has published three papers that have received a lot of attention and that seem to bring closer to reality the possibility that humans will one day be able to, in his words, "change the aging program."

Changing the aging program means three different things. The thing that's gotten the most attention is the possibility of increasing life span. The thing by which Dillin justifies his work in the here and now is the possibility that his work may lead to treatments for such age-related diseases as Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes. And the thing that gets Dillin most excited -- and most philosophical -- is the possibility that by addressing age-related diseases, he is addressing something else entirely: youthfulness.


Read the rest, it's well worth the read:
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/dillin1207

[DavidDvorkin]

1. "No one wants to live forever"?

False.