Word: hoping
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...twiddle and reset the hands. They might concoct Methuselah pills or inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...
...often works through the night on his mutant Methuselah. He feels that aging should now be studied as a disease, and he would love to spend his next career, he says, "unraveling the facts." But he hates to see the study of longevity being overblown by the press. "I hope the hype will not result in the same letdown as Nixon's all-out war on cancer." Even if there is a central clock, it may be harder to control than cancer...
...wouldn't want to live as long as Methuselah, myself. But I would like to reach old age alive and kicking. My hope is that the science of life will mature fast enough so that 30 years from now, when my sons begin to ask those eternal questions about growing old, I can look at them and say, "I recommend...
...sweeping claim might have been dismissed as nonsense. But that was before last fall's discovery that the fetal human brain contains master cells (called neural stem cells) that can grow into any kind of brain cell. Snyder extracted these cells and "mass-produced" them in the lab. His hope is that the cells, when injected into a damaged adult brain, will turn themselves into replacements for cells that are dead or diseased...
...Princeton, that adult macaque monkeys are constantly growing new cells in the highest and most complex area of the brain, the cerebral cortex. Snyder is now flush with confidence that neuroscience will ultimately cure many, if not all, diseases of the human brain. "By the year 2020 I hope we will have an active way of treating damaged brains. If we can further understand brain-cell regeneration and harness the process intelligently, then re-creating the brain, or at least parts of the brain, may lie within our grasp. Obviously there are lots of hurdles to overcome...