‘The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.’ –Rainer Maria Rilke
[T]he reason someone may live beyond 100 years starts with their DNA […] “You can’t make it out that far without having already won the genetic lottery at birth” […] The longer your parents live, the more likely you’ll live a healthier, longer life, experts say. […]
“It’s probably not one single gene but a profile, a combination of genes”
Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, has studied the lives of hundreds of centenarians, the people they’ve married and their kids. The children of centenarians are “about 10 years healthier” than their peers, Barzilai said. […]
The plan is to use artificial intelligence to help find the genes and develop drugs from them
