OK, my local site has been updated with the story for tonight's "Search For Immortality"
Looks like they are having one person on talking about cells.....
Here is a portion of the story.
48 Hours, Thursday, November 12, 10PM ET/PT
Search For Immortality
Among the hopeful souls you'll meet:
Michael West, head of a company trying to make old human cells
young again with a technique similar to cloning . Called nuclear
transfer, this technique, West says, may eventually provide a supply
of perfectly matched human tissues for organ transplants. This
potentially unlimited supply of new, genetically matched cells would
allow doctors to avoid the controversial use of fetal tissue and human
eggs.
Rev. Kevin Wildes of Georgetown University's Kennedy
Institute for Ethics, who worries that nuclear transfer could lead to
outrageous abuses. Father Wildes also fears that the new techniques
are not being properly regulated.
Dr. Alan Mintz, a former radiologist who's founded an anti-aging
center. His recommended regimen includes doses of human growth
hormone, which some doctors say can be harmful.
Brian Delaney, a 35-year-old Ph.D. student in Oregon who, after
reading about a low calorie diet that radically extended the lives of
mice, decided to try it himself. He eats two small meals a day - lots of
kale, lots of fruit and vegetables. Is it worth it? "If I can wring a
few more decades out of existence," says Delaney, "and
have more time to write music and understand Plato, it's
worth it."
Ben Levinson, who at 103 has recently
taken up shotputting. He works out, drives
on his own, and goes on dates with a
younger woman (she's 85). What's his
secret? No spicy food, he says.
Mark Muhlestein, a Silicon Valley
computer programmer who has signed up to
be frozen when he dies, in the hope that one
day science will find a way to revive him.
Muhlestein, whose wife and two teenage sons have also signed up, is
one of about 1000 Americans who are signed up to be "cryonically"
preserved. While some researchers say that the freezing won't help
them be brought back from the dead, the Muhlesteins are willing to
take the chance. |
