In article: <Pine.3.89.9502261615.A18936-0100000 at Gayle-Gaston.tenet.edu>
dashley at TENET.EDU (Don Ashley) writes:
> Research on anti-aging (immortality via perpetual cell division) has just
> as much chance of success as research for cancer, AIDS, std's, athlete's
> foot.
>
Many diseases such as cancer affect mainly the elderly. If people did not
grow old, ie we found a cure for being elderly, then the incidence of these
diseases would be cut with just one research field.
I suggest that simple economics suggests more money should be spend on basic
ageing research.
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