ok well not eternal but a hella long time

"In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely," says Cynthia Kenyon, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco. In 1993, she discovered a set of genes in worms that seem to control a pathway of genes that regulate aging. She was able to suppress the action of one to increase a worm's life span by six times and keep it young. Now researchers have extended the life span of mice by more than 30%, and they expect even longer-lived mice. Unlike worms, these fellow mammals share at least 70% of our genes. Kenyon co-founded Elixer Pharmaceuticals. The goal: to develop a Fountain of Youth pill, perhaps leading to sprightly centenarians. The drug's first use, still years off if it works, would be to delay diseases of aging, such as Huntington's disease and some cancers.

http://www.usaweekend.com/05_issues...619science.html


If you could, would you alter your genes to enable you to live for say 150 years? If your body would age proportionately would you?

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