Expanding the upper limit of lifespan has long been a fantasy that human beings have dreamed of. In 2013, Professor Harvard Schinkel discovered the "Wright" class of anti-aging substances, revealing the secret between telomeres and the human body; In 19 years, Bezos invested 20 billion yuan to establish Altos Labs, a biotechnology enterprise, committed to overcoming the shackles of the upper limit of life; Last year, the Saudi royal family announced that it would set aside 6 billion a year to solve the biggest problem facing humanity today: "death".
Every advance in science will have a profound impact on social development, so the former Google chief future scientist Aubrey de Gray boldly predicted: "Mankind will enter the door of immortality after 2029", which is based on the rapid development of related technologies in recent years. Not long ago, a new research by Israeli scientists once again confirmed the feasibility of Aubrey's prediction.
This is a research report published by a research team at Tel Aviv University in Israel in the well-known academic journal Aging. According to public data, the tel Aviv University research team used hyperbaric oxygen technology to make the elderly volunteers participating in the experiment have a change in the rejuvenation of skin cells, and the age spot problem due to age has also improved significantly.
With the publication of this research result, in addition to causing a lot of sensation in the academic community, many voices of doubt have also followed. Many people think that the experiment of Lie tel Aviv University is a sensationalism, and in the face of the outside world's doubts, Professor Shai Efrati, the head of the research project, chose to conduct another experiment and adopted the most rigorous "live skin" method in medicine.
The research team re-recruited a group of elderly volunteers over the age of 65, while using hyperbaric oxygen technology to inhale hyperbaric oxygen continuously for 90 days. After the end of the experiment, the skin status of all the elderly volunteers showed visible changes to the naked eye, and after checking the physiological age of the skin cells, it was found that some of the cells had returned to their pre-25-year-old state.
The Israeli team proved the scientific nature of its research results with practical actions, and also made everyone realize that if you want to break through the shackles of human lifespan, you may only start from the cellular level. As Professor Sinkel mentioned at the beginning of the article, the "Wright" substance discovered is to start from the telomeres of the cell, and by extending the sustainable structure of the telomeres, the cells age more slowly under the same conditions.
According to public information, Professor Zinkel is a firm practitioner of cell theory, and he believes that changing the telomere structure of cells with the help of nature's special substances can achieve a breakthrough in the shackles of life. Therefore, in more than a decade-long research, he has been looking for this substance, that is, at the insistence of him and the research team, the "Wright" class was found.
And within a few years of Professor Sinkel's breakthrough in the field, such substances were rapidly developed and put into practical use. Soon, such technologies attracted the attention of a large number of rich people in Europe and the United States, such as Buffett, Larry Page and others we are familiar with, should be the first testers of this type of technology. Later, due to the needs of market development, under the impetus of multi-party capital and "Biosc" bio science and technology enterprises, "Wright" went all the way from the European and American rich circles to China.
Judging from the development scale of domestic JD.com and Tmall-related fields in recent years, such things may exceed the 100 billion range in the next few years. Because of the existence of such successful precedents, in 19 years, the former world's richest man Bezos also joined the track, and the technology that he was willing to spend 20 billion yuan to study was the "somatic cell reprogramming technology" that had been famous for a long time and won the Nobel Prize.
The "somatic cell reprogramming technique," which, as the name suggests, is the re-editing of cells in vivo through biotechnology, was first discovered by Shinya Yamanaka, a professor of biology at Kyoto University. In simple terms, it is to use special transcription factors to induce aging somatic cells to return to their youthful state, but at the beginning this technology is not controllable, and it is easy to make cells cancerous.
Later, with the joint efforts of scientists from many countries, the "somatic cell reprogramming technology" was continuously optimized and upgraded, and now it can only reverse the age of cells, while retaining the functions of other mature cells. Therefore, Bezos dared to spend a lot of money on research, but the technology is still in the clinical stage, and it may take a long time to be practically applied.
Nowadays, in the study of fighting "death", the academic community has presented a scene of a hundred schools of thought, and the emergence of various related technologies also shows that we are gradually drifting away from this unknown road ahead. Seventeen years ago, the journal Science published 125 academic questions in the field of scientific research, one of which was: "How long can humans live?"
In this regard, many big bulls in the scientific community have expressed their opinions, believing that with the rapid development of science and technology, the average life expectancy of human beings will exceed 100 years in the near future. Now, 17 years have passed, more and more relevant results have appeared from the side to confirm, these scientists yearn for the era of 100 years may be coming, what are the different views on this?