EXECUTIVE SUMMARYAround this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught Russia’s and China’s leaders discussing the possibility of living forever.
“With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality,” Russia’s Vladimir Putin reportedly told China’s Xi Jinping.
He seems to have been referring to the “replacement” theory of longevity, which has been supported by multiple experiments that involved physically stitching young mice to old ones. Something about the young blood rejuvenated the old mice. Perhaps young organs could rejuvenate world leaders in their 70s, too.
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