New Health Breakthrough Could Increase Longevity

Posted on September 15, 2006

Will we someday say that life begins at 100? That's an age most people still don't live to see but a Reuters article says some experts believe new health advances like stem cells, nanotechnology and genetic engineering could change everything.

Goldman said a calendar with pictures of actress Sophia Loren at the age of 71 wearing only a pair of earrings underlined how perceptions of age had changed.
"If somebody told you 14 years ago that they were going to have a former sex symbol pose in earrings only, you would have been disgusted or you would have closed your eyes," he said. "Today she looks great at the age of 71."
Stem cell therapy will allow people to regain lost hair, remove wrinkles by renewing skins, and grow new nerves for paralyzed patients, Michael Klentze, director of the Klentze Institute of Anti-aging in Munich, Germany, told Reuters.
Stem cells have the ability to act as a repair system for the body, because they can divide and differentiate, replenishing other cells as long as the host organism is alive.
"People who have hair loss they can hope in the next months they've got new hair, not strange hair, but their own hair," he said.

It is becoming evident that with the expected breakthroughs that the average age humans live will increase. This also does not include any surprise discoveries that may give our lifespans an additional boost.

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