{"id":57201,"date":"2017-05-05T01:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-are-waging-a-war-against-human-aging-but-what-happens-next"},"modified":"2017-05-05T01:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:42:31","slug":"scientists-are-waging-a-war-against-human-aging-but-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-are-waging-a-war-against-human-aging-but-what-happens-next","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are waging a war against human aging. But what happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-waging-a-war-against-human-aging-but-what-happens-next.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aubrey de Grey in this new interview with Vox.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We all grow old. We all die.<\/p>\n<p>For Aubrey de Grey, a biogerontologist and chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation, accepting these truths is, well, not good enough. He decided in his late twenties (he\u2019s currently 54) that he \u201cwanted to make a difference to humanity\u201d and that battling age was the best way to do it. His life\u2019s work is now a struggle against physics and biology, the twin collaborators in bodily decay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand it takes a certain amount of guts to aim high.\u201d \u2014Aubrey de Grey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/5\/4\/15433348\/aubrey-de-grey-life-extension-aging-death-science-medicine\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/conversations\/2017\/5\/4\/15433348\/aubrey-d...e-medicine<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubrey de Grey in this new interview with Vox. We all grow old. We all die. For Aubrey de Grey, a biogerontologist and chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation, accepting these truths is, well, not good enough. He decided in his late twenties (he\u2019s currently 54) that he \u201cwanted to make a difference [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}