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Want to live longer? Consider the ethics

  • Written by John K. Davis, Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton
Telomeres, a part of DNA that hold the key to biological aging.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer than they do naturally – may one day be possible.

Big business is taking this possibility seriously. In 2013 Google founded a company called Calico to...

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