{"id":80977,"date":"2018-07-27T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/dr-aubrey-de-grey-sens-research-foundation"},"modified":"2018-07-27T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:42:22","slug":"dr-aubrey-de-grey-sens-research-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/dr-aubrey-de-grey-sens-research-foundation","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Aubrey de Grey \u2013 SENS Research Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s almost the weekend and what better way to celebrate than a nice long interview with one of the Heroes of aging research? Today we bring you a mega-interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey.<\/p>\n

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Today we have an interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey from the SENS Research Foundation. This interview conducted by Yuri Deigin was originally published in Russian language<\/a> and he has kindly translated it into English so our audience can enjoy it too.<\/p>\n

Yuri: Aubrey, thank you very much for agreeing to this interview. Why don\u2019t we dive right in? I am sure everybody asks you this: how and when did you become interested in aging, and when did you decide to make it your life\u2019s mission to defeat it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aubrey de Grey: I became interested in aging and decided to work on it in my late 20s, so, in the early 1990s. The reason I became interested was because that was when I discovered that other biologists were almost all not interested in it. They did not think that aging was a particularly important or interesting question. I had always assumed, throughout my whole life, that aging was obviously the world\u2019s most important problem. I thought that people who understood biology would be working on it really hard. Then, I discovered that wasn\u2019t true and that hardly any biologists were working on it. The ones that were weren\u2019t doing it very well, not very productively as far as I could see. I thought I\u2019d better have a go myself, so I switched fields from my previous research area, which was artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s almost the weekend and what better way to celebrate than a nice long interview with one of the Heroes of aging research? Today we bring you a mega-interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey. Today we have an interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey from the SENS Research Foundation. This interview conducted by Yuri Deigin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80977","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=80977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}