• Question: can we live forever

    Asked by Mad Scientist to Chris, Phil, Rosie, Tom, wajiha on 12 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by PlantinumNoob.
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      Chris Bowden answered on 12 Jun 2017:

      The simple answer is yes, it is possible that one day humans could live forever. We know quite a lot about what makes people get older and age. There are tiny machines that slowly eat bits off the ends of your DNA. If we could change how those machines work, maybe they would stop biting the ends off DNA. We can’t live forever at the moment though. But, the average lifetime has got so much higher in the past 100 years so we are very lucky to be alive now – we could live to over 100 !

      P.S. I have a question for you – do you want to live forever? It could be quite scary!

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