Whether we can live up to 800 years?

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Soon all of us, unless, of course, he so chooses, will be able to extend the duration of their lives for hundreds of years. True, it will have to make some adjustments in our DNA. At least Steve Connor tells about the revolutionary opening, which already has caused divisions in the scientific world.
In California, researchers managed to create genetically modified living organism that can live 10 times longer than it released nature. This achievement is the greatest extension of life, which has so far been achieved investigating mechanisms of ageing specialists.

The life of a length in 800 years is not only possible but inevitable - so the scientist believes Valter Longo, a representative of a small but influential group of specialists in the field. The University of Southern California it is his work led to the creation of the world yeast strain of fungus, which can live 10 weeks, and sometimes longer. At first sight - nothing startling, but the fact is that initially this nature glands in the normal condition was released maximum week of life.
Valtera Longo results of the study to be published in the journal Public Library of Science Genetics this week, suggest that the scientist was able to extend to ten times of normal life yeast cells used by bakers and brewers. To do so, he had deleted from the genome and gene mold two to put his unguarded diet.


Colossal difference between yeast cells and the human body has not prevented Longo and his colleagues to express their direct relation to the study of aging and longevity of human beings. Talking about his work, Longo said: "We are laying the foundation for reprogramming the body to a healthy life. If we can understand how the mechanism of longevity, it could be applied to all cells of any living organism… We are very, very far from having to extend human life to 800 years. I think it is not so difficult to be extended up to 120 lives, while maintaining health, but at some point, I think people will probably prolong life to 800 years. I do not believe that for any organism exists an upper limit for life ".

This leads one to ask that something similar is happening in the world of people, and that many representatives of mankind die earlier than is necessary.

"A programmed aging rights - this is just a hypothesis. we do not yet know whether it is true - continues Longo thoughts. - But if yeast fungus programmed aging, and metabolic mechanism is very similar to the human, that is it can not be that people die before too long? ".

Walter Longo said that so far no one has been able to prove his theory inadmissible programmed death. But it is quite possible that these heretical speculations can fill a bowl of patience rest of the scientific world.