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Harvard geneticist says reversing aging is plausible

Renowned Harvard geneticist George Church said at a science conference in La Jolla on Thursday that reversing aging in humans is plausible based on research that’s been done on small animals.

"Reversal is something that has been demonstrated in a number of different animals in a number of different ways," said Church, a keynote speaker at the Future of Genomic Medicine conference. " I think that’s going to translate into larger animals and humans. We won’t know until we try. But we trying 65 different genes in different combinations to see if we can reproduce the aging reversal that we’ve seen in small animals.

"We don’t know what (age reversal) would mean in terms of human years. Animals have had their life extended by factors of two to 10. That seems too good to be true for humans."

Gary Robbins

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