News : Paul F. Glenn Backs Aubrey de Grey

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More good news from the Methuselah Foundation: "In response to the recent progress report from Methuselah Foundation chairman Aubrey de Grey, we are pleased to note that the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research has stepped forward in greater support of [Methuselah] Foundation-funded SENS research with the offer of an additional $50,000 donation ... Paul F. Glenn, founder of the Glenn Foundation, said, 'We have been following the progress of Aubrey de Grey's ideas with interest, and the Thiel matching pledge allows us to leverage our funds in a highly efficient way.'" This follows a (second) $55,000 donation from the Scott B. and Anne P. Appleby Charitable Trust just last week. Exciting times! We are entering an age of considered philanthropic support for real anti-aging science - just what is needed to loosen rusted gears and get moving.

View the Article Under Discussion: http://blog.methuselahfoundation.org/2006/12/continued_support_from_the_gle.html
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Published Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:50 PM by Longevity Meme News and Commentary

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	adidaprean wrote on December 21, 2006 12:11 AM Score! This is the kind of things that need to happen in order to get better funding/ awareness. H+ R.I.P FM 2030
	adbatstone wrote on December 21, 2006 3:45 AM No matter what we do, how hard we fight or how many millions we direct toward the MPrize, we will still miss out on longevity treatments. That is the cold hard truth.
	Gully Foyle wrote on December 25, 2006 8:28 PM How can you be so certain? The way I see it, the cold hard truth is that we don't know. A person living a thousand years ago could say with absolute certainty that no cure for aging will be invented in his lifetime, but people today genuinely live in a time where the issue is up in the air for the first time in history. The present situation is one of uncertainty. It makes no sense to simply assume that all challenges will be overcome in you lifetime and start planning for the next millennium of your life. It also make no sense to blithely declare the whole enterprise of healthy life extension either impossible or just out of reach. The analogy I like to make is that the current situation is like waiting in the waiting room of a hospital while someone you love is having a risky new operation. There is no way of assessing the ods of success, so some will throw their hands up and declare their loved one dead rather than deal with anymore uncertainty.