Contemplating someone crossing the 100-year line is something admirable, a tangible proof of human resilience in the face of time.
With this, we understand how remarkable is how the process of human aging it seems to move forward surprisingly and quickly, revealing years of accumulated memories and experiences in the blink of an eye.
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It is from this same perspective that a Portuguese scientist conceives the idea that technology will have the capacity to extend our lifespan by an incredible 20,000 years!
Who says this is an aging specialist named João Pedro de Magalhães, who is also a professor of molecular biogerontology at the University of Birmingham, in England.
In an interview given to the website Scientific American, he laid out his ambitious goal of significantly extending human life expectancy.
Magalhães plans to achieve this feat through an innovative method that is in the development phase, whose purpose is to remodel the cell development process.
João Pedro de Magalhães, professor of molecular biogerontology at the University of Birmingham. (Image: University of Birmingham / Reproduction)
The researcher understood that our biology is governed by complex genetic programs, comparable to computer algorithms.
However, over time, some of these programs can deteriorate and become harmful, resulting in the aging process.
For him, there is a complex network of genetic programs similar to computer algorithms in our DNA, responsible for the transition to adulthood.
With this, he suggests that certain programs, as they persist into adulthood, may eventually cause adverse effects, thus outlining his hypothesis about aging.
To address this scenario, the researcher proposes a review of these “genetic algorithms”, DNA correction and the initiative to start a very different aging process.
Magalhães' research, to date, has focused on animals that defy expectations of longevity in their species.
He illustrates his approach with notable examples such as the bowhead whale, which lives around 200 years, and the naked mole rat, capable of reaching 30 years of life, whereas similar rodents have a life expectancy of only about a decade.
Magalhães points out that these animals have unique “molecular strategies”, such as the P53 gene, to fight cancer and prolong their useful life.
Although new pharmaceutical substances are beginning to show results, the real key to achieving extraordinary longevity lies in reprogramming our “genetic software”.
He argues that achieving a life expectancy that varies between a thousand and 20 thousand years would require cells that would remain immune to the effects of aging, for example.
Aspects such as resistance to cancer and the ability to restore DNA are presented as crucial elements in this process.
Despite the challenges presented, Magalhães sees a horizon in which profound genetic interventions could reconfigure human biology, making it resistant to both cancer and damage genetic.
However, if the prospect of humans transcending their current inability to live longer is achievable, the journey to that point still proves to be an extensive and complex path to be followed. traveled.
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