Debate on human aging and lifespan

Abstract

The issue of human lifespan has long been a matter of controversy among scientists. In spite of the recent claim by Dong et al that human lifespan is limited to 115 years, with the mounting improvements in biotechnology and scientific understanding of aging, we may be confident that aging will slow down over the course of the current century extending human longevity much longer than 115 years.

Keywords

• Lifespan
• Futurists
• Human aging
• Mitochondrial damage
• Nuclear DNA damage
• Neuro-stem cells