Sentences with phrase «human life span»

If that's the case, it would mean that stopping aging would not extend human life span by much.

Many scientists believe that average human life span has an inherent upper limit, although they don't agree on whether it's 85 or 100 or 150.

And then the third part is this field of longevity, of helping create an extraordinary extended healthy human life span.

It's the richest source of stem cells and amino - active cells that have the potential to extend the healthy human life span as one of the attributes.

If anything, the slight tilt in the present indirect evidence is in the opposite direction, towards skepticism for a significant role over the present human life span.

The fact that it's obvious enough in a short human life span should scare the crap out of people.

Others say human life span may be far more limited.

However: at present there is no compelling causal evidence to show that nuclear DNA damage alone has a significant effect over the present human life span in comparison to other contributions to degenerative aging.

Increasing human life spans may actually intensify the problem, because people have more years to experience the loneliness and infirmity of old age.

Understanding how they work may reveal the keys to extending human life span while banishing diseases of old age

Specialized instruction in theories of counseling and personality, vocational psychology, human life span development, psychological assessment and evaluation, psychopathology, measurement and statistics, research design, professional ethics, supervision, and consultation.

But exponentials, he notes, also apply to brain scanning, genome sequencing, the Internet and even human life spans.

«Will the maximum human life span increase in the future?

It will be one of the hardest forms of damage to repair via rejuvenation biotechnology; the only one that springs to mind as likely being even more difficult is the matter of damaged nuclear pore proteins in long - lived cells, single molecules that might be as old as you are, doing the same job for an entire human life span.

The premise: Since human life spans have become so much longer over the centuries, marriage should now be seven years contractually, with an option to renew every seven years.

On any page he might talk about meat - eating among bonobos or the average human life span during the Roman Empire.

Still, Gray and Garcia fall flat when it comes to their discussion of female orgasm and menopause, embracing the ludicrous proposition that both are nonadaptive byproducts: the former a hitchhiker on male ejaculation and the latter a random consequence of recently extended human life spans.

He's dedicated himself to «opening up space,» making space travel accessible to not just the government, and increasing the human life span.

He has donated to organizations that seek to extend the human life span, such as the Methuselah Foundation.

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

If the human life span were significantly extended, could we fill our brains?

DiChristina: So Steve, one of the things we haven't talked about, and I know I think you're speaking with the other folks [about] some of the stories in the issue — one of them I mentioned little earlier, which is about human biology, why can't we live forever, and it talks about what the efforts are, ongoing efforts, to see if we can extend human life span; it's an interesting one.

They are not even thinking about extending the human life span to 150 or 200 years, at least not in the short term.

The species had gone from extraordinarily populous to extinct in a human life span.

The modern toilet has probably added a decade to the human life span (and was voted the biggest medical advance of the last two centuries by the readers of the British Medical Journal).

The Mechanics of Aging For the German - born Horvath, a boyish 48 - year - old with broad features and a puckish sense of humor, the discovery is the fruition of a lifelong dream, dating back to high school, when he decided to devote his career to prolonging the human life span.

Diabetes can cut up to 20 years off the human life span and costs the United States at least $ 130 billion annually.

If standardized and reactive medicine managed to double the human life span in a century, just imagine how far personalized and preventive medicine might extend it.

Over the generations, it should be possible to progressively increase the human life span.

When you say «instantaneously,» you are talking about long stretches of time compared with the human life span, right Yes.

It turns out that the human life span plateaus as it approaches a roof of about 120.

It is still unknown whether resveratrol will increase the human life span, but the latest findings have muted some early critics.

Does this discovery have any relevance for the problem of the human life span?

At the other end of the human life span, «genes that help us live longer get selected,» Hawks reports.

But earthquakes start without preamble in the invisible depths, and at any one location major ones are rare in relation to the human life span.

For the better part of 50 years he has dedicated his life and his research to the belief that threescore years and fifteen is woefully short for a human life span and that we should all live decades longer.

At 17 he announced in an article for his school newspaper that the human life span was unacceptably short.

A big part of the problem, Stein said, is that the Earth moves on a different schedule than the human life span.

Olshansky, at the University of Illinois, and Austad, at the University of Idaho, have long shared an interest in the human life span.

Given Olshansky's confidence that humans won't live to be 150, it may be surprising to learn that he thinks there's no predetermined biological limit to the human life span.

Thus Olshansky and other scientists like him say that while there may be no biological limits to the human life span, there are practical ones.

Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.

The frequency of neoplastic disease is strongly correlated with the relatively recent expansion of the human life span.

I also want your kids to have that same opportunity, because I believe it's entirely possible given our biology, given our technology, that we can extend our human life span very meaningfully.