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    Stem Cell Research: the Way of the Future Ponce de Leon’s fountain of youth is a myth about an alleged fountain that can heal disease and even age to reach immortality. Is this so called fountain of youth just a myth or is this large challenge just in their reach standing right before us? The only way for people to achieve a form of immortality is through stem cell research and stem cell therapy. The reprogramming of cells and the addition of new stem cells will soon be the way of the future, it

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    Executive Summary In the CBC News video broadcast “Curing ageing,” reporter Kelly Crowe interviews David Rollo’s, professor of the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey of Cambridge, and Ear Fee of Mississauga, Ont., to discuss the ageing phenomenon of attitude towards a long life expectancy. Their experiments to measure a consumer’s attitude of dietary restriction, supplements, and exercise illustrate the complexity of attitudes. The mix of nutritional supplements

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    2030 SENS Research Paper

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    The modification that I think would be the most popular enhancement by 2030 focuses on one section of SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) research currently being explored by biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey. His foundation focuses on removing, restoring, substituting, and reducing cellular and molecular damaged that impacts human tissues as we age so that humans can potentially live for centuries (“Reimagined Research”). The organization recognizes seven different areas

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    A Thousand Years Young by Aubrey De Grey 1. Describe the perspective presented in this article and include what is meant by regenerative medicine. In your view, is death an eventuality that we all succumb to or can it be altered and possibly eradicated? The perspective presented in this article is incredibly advance and extremely useful for mankind. It is an “Anti-aging activist” identifies the medical and biomedical advances that could eventually eliminate all the wear and tear that our bodies

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    The ethical issue of Human Enhancement justifies the risks humans are willing to take to alter in its most natural form. From the three articles I had read which were “The Immorality Upgrade”, “Cyborg Olympics”, and “”Brain Doping” May Improve Athletes Performance” makes a fine point on how enhancing yourself could benefit you in life and could possibly help you achieve more. In the article “”Brain Doping” May Improve Athletes Performance”, it states that stimulating the brain with electricity can

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    Common sense seems to dictate that one day we are all going to die. As we get older we crave to keep our youth, and to stay young forever is the ultimate dream. The thought of a possible immortality is just an added benefit. Even though we have strived towards this goal for centuries, have we obtained advances in successfully staying young forever? In Bill Gifford’s book “Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)” he explores these ideas of life and aging further. In this novel, he goes

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    English method in their poetry and did not contributed in enriching Irish literary tradition. He praised Callanan for developing a new kind of verse with its source from the Irish tradition. The poets who contributed in enriching Irish tradition were Aubrey De Vere, William Allingham, Clarence Mangan and Sir Samuel

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