By Eleanor Garth – Longevity.Technology –
Dr Eric Verdin of The Buck Institute for Research on Aging on finding the longevity sweet spot between realism and optimism.
The longevity field was stirred in October 2024 by a provocative paper published in Nature Aging titled The Implausibility of Radical Life Extension in Humans in the 21st Century. Writen by S Jay Olshansky, Bradley J Willcox, Lloyd Demetrius and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, the paper explored demographic trends and mortality data to challenge one of the central ambitions of modern longevity science – extending human life far beyond current biological limits.
