One scientist thinks so.
Aging and getting old are not the same process, and some of us can deliberately freeze the former during our 40s, 50s or 60s.
This is an idea put forth by Michael Rose of the University California, Irvine — a guy who creates freakishly long-lived “Methuselah” fruit flies for his day job.
Rose joined the stage at the World Science Festival* in New York City with three other gerontological experts: Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation, Judith Campisi of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Leonard Guarente of MIT.
Local TV-news legend Bill Ritter moderated the June 2nd chat, called “From Dust to…: The Radical New Science of Longevity.”
The dance of question-and-answer proceeded normally until about halfway through, when Rose dropped a figurative bomb.
