Juan Ponce de Leon searched America for that fable Fountain of Youth. Alas, he never found it.
In this millennium, there are scientists seeking out the Fountain of Youth in the form of the stop-aging gene. Through their research, the aging will stop and humans will live on as immortals. In fact, they even predicted the anti-aging cure is within reach in a few years.
The documentary “The Immortalists” follows the personal lives and stories of the famous anti-aging scientists Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey. The two experts have opposite theories on their approach, but their lives of these radical biologists reveal their personal reasons for the quest of immortality.
Lation-Review had an exclusive phone interview with directors Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado on this ambitious documentary. The duo discussed about the lives of Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Gray and the philosophy and science behind their research.
“The Immortalists...
In this millennium, there are scientists seeking out the Fountain of Youth in the form of the stop-aging gene. Through their research, the aging will stop and humans will live on as immortals. In fact, they even predicted the anti-aging cure is within reach in a few years.
The documentary “The Immortalists” follows the personal lives and stories of the famous anti-aging scientists Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey. The two experts have opposite theories on their approach, but their lives of these radical biologists reveal their personal reasons for the quest of immortality.
Lation-Review had an exclusive phone interview with directors Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado on this ambitious documentary. The duo discussed about the lives of Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Gray and the philosophy and science behind their research.
“The Immortalists...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Jokes are all fine and fell, but the men profiled in the film The Immortalists are deadly serious (pardon the pun) about the idea of not just extending human life, but reversing aging itself. It sounds like science fiction, believing that the Fountain of Youth is a daily pill that’s 10-15 years away from being in our medicine cabinets, but if sheer passion in excess was the only thing needed for massive paradigm changes in science, the two researchers profiled in this documentary would have already succeeded by now.
On the one hand, there’s Aubrey de Gong, “the Crusader.” He’s an English biogerontologist, which from what I gather, means he studies the effects of aging. To put it simply, Aubrey’s research says that cells collect “garbage” over time that reduce their efficiency and cause aging, and just as you wouldn’t let garbage pile up in your house because its unhealthy,...
On the one hand, there’s Aubrey de Gong, “the Crusader.” He’s an English biogerontologist, which from what I gather, means he studies the effects of aging. To put it simply, Aubrey’s research says that cells collect “garbage” over time that reduce their efficiency and cause aging, and just as you wouldn’t let garbage pile up in your house because its unhealthy,...
- 5/4/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
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