Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey is the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is perhaps best known for his view that human beings could, in theory, live to lifespans far in excess...

“Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut Well, OK, strictly it’s an analogy rather than a metaphor, but I couldn’t resist. In overview talks on the “SENS” repair-and-maintenance approach to combating aging that I favour, I generally introduce the basic concept by analogy with the fact that the functional lifespan...

Of all the diseases and life threatening problems we face as a species, one thing is abundantly clear – aging kills, and currently it kills everyone eventually, in fact from the moment you are born into this world you are dying of this so far untreatable disease yet unlike all other fatal diseases there is still a religious aspect to this disease that makes...