Can science help us live forever?

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one part machine and add some nanoshells, who knows how long could you live? Some experts say forever.

Medicines designed to work against those genetic diseases, resembling your unique genetic traits, targeting perfectly and precisely what ails you. Tumor and cancer cell busters when they are not even big enough to detect and intelligent chips in your brain that replace neurons ravaged by Alzheimer’s.

With the current rate of advancement in science and technology, these kind of therapeutic measures doesn’t seem a distant dream. This does means better health and subsequently, longer lives. But how long? Some longevity expert set the goal at 90 while some other at 120 to an expected 150 in some cases.

Longest living woman verified, Jeanne Calment, who passed away in 1997, lived upto the age of 122. Calment is believed to have possessed rare genetic traits which has triggered scientists to race towards the genetic fountain of youth. As they toil in their labs at their computers, each of them must grapple with yet another tricky question: Should we regard aging-which is really gradual damage to all the body’s cells- as a disease or a neutral part of life cycle?

Here is a look at the breakthroughs coming our way, and the dilemmas they may present.

Rewiring Brains:

What good is a long life if you can’t remember where, or even who are you? Scientists are working on chips that could act just as a hard-drive on your computer. By 2020, brain rewiring could beat Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases. Craig Venter, a neuro-scientist believes we will soon be our own gene managers.

Brain chips aren’t as fantastical as you might think. Activa, a gadget that stimulates sections of brain to suppress the symptoms of Parkinton’s disease and other motor disorders has already been implanted in about 30,000 brains.

Nanoshells:

Jennifer West, researches on cancer cures that employ nanoshells that are one-thousand of the size of human blood cells. In future, someday a doctor could inject the nanoshells into a patient’s bloodstream which while destroying cancer and tumor cells, does not penetrate healthy tissue. Better understanding of human genome could also lead to other cures.

So what will you die off?

So if medical breakthroughs eliminate heart disease, strokes and cancer, what will people die off?

It will be the beginning on the rare trend- Die on the spot.