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Can we cure ageing?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics Doesn't Force Us to Age

The idea that there might be some kind of ticking clock inside our biology inspired me. I think what really inspired me is, well, on top of the fact, you know, staring down my own mortality,. was looking around in the animal kingdom. You can see that there are animals that by this statistical definition, this mortality rate doubling time, they literally don't age. So if we could count with biomedical science, maybe we could push humans to be a little bit more tortoise and reduce that risk of death with time.

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