March 20, 2006
Although the odds are that this will turn out to be merely wishful thinking, it's mind-boggling even to entertain the idea:
Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist from Cambridge University, goes much further. He believes the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born and told the meeting that periodic repairs to the body using stem cells, gene therapy and other techniques could eventually stop the aging process entirely.