• Question: Do you think that Heath care will ever become so good that we will be able to live for hundreds of years?

    Asked by anon-174269 to Alex, Carl, Hayley, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 13 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 13 Jun 2018:

      We would need to combat age-related diseases for this to be possible. Scientists have suggested that we could move past the current known maximum life expectancy (122 years), but whether or not this will happen, or be allowed to happen – I don’t know.

    • Photo: Yewande Oyekenu

      Yewande Oyekenu answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      In Vivo (In Body) it is difficult to live for hundreds of years, but In Vitro (In tube) it may be possible. An African American woman named Henrietta Lacks had some of her cells taken from her in 1951 before she died in America, as they were rapidly growing due to her cancer and today we are still using her cells all over the world to try to find the cure to diseases. In fact, it was used for polio vaccine and the cells are popularly called HeLa cells.

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