This
NY Times Articlecame just a day late for this week's Freaky Science Friday. It's about the recent Pop!Tech conference at which genticist Aubrey de Grey explained how people should live forever, if only they can figure out how to "fix" damaged parts, like old houses are repaired. De Grey adopts Woody Allen's line: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." A "Methuselah Mouse" is the first stop toward proving this. Of course thousand year old life spans will leave little room for new life.
Meanwhile, pending immortality, on the same page in the Times, there's an interesting review of Robert Pogue Harrison's "The Dominion of the Dead," about the relationship of the dead to the living.