My name is Lucy, and I’m a graduate student at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studying molecular biology.
Back in school I was interested in the fundamental laws of nature, and the ability to apply them in life. That's why I was interested in science, especially biology, physics and chemistry. In the framework of modern biology, all of these disciplines are closely intertwined, and the study of biology directly to the study of man himself, and the possibility of bioengineering, transformation and control of biological processes in living systems. That's why I decided to study biology, mainly molecular biology.
I believe that at the moment there are four areas in biology which could radically change our lives.
Back in school I was interested in the fundamental laws of nature, and the ability to apply them in life. That's why I was interested in science, especially biology, physics and chemistry. In the framework of modern biology, all of these disciplines are closely intertwined, and the study of biology directly to the study of man himself, and the possibility of bioengineering, transformation and control of biological processes in living systems. That's why I decided to study biology, mainly molecular biology.
I believe that at the moment there are four areas in biology which could radically change our lives.
My goal is to shed the light to anti-aging researches, including regenerative technologies and news in gerontology, I will also write about interesting approaches in neurobiology and synthetic biology.
I have two
facts for you.
The first -
every minute all of you are getting older.
The second
one - the science could change it.
Thanks to
development of biology and medicine today we live much longer than people lived
even 200 years ago. For example, in the 14-15th century the Englishman could expect 24.3
years of life. In the 19th century lifespan reached 40 years. Similar figures showed and other countries in Europe and Asia, for example, in Japan a person at the end of the 18th century could expect to live 32.2 years(J.C.Russell,"Late Ancient and Medieval Population).
We
come to the point when we live longer, but with great loss of quality of life
when we getting older. The longer people live, the more they face with
age-related diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular
diseases, arthritis, etc…By 2050, the number of elderly people in the world for the first time in the history of humanity has exceeded the number of young people. And this has an influence not only on man health, but
on world economics too.
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In ideal
future men could repair themselves with the help of special procedures of
intensive renewal of organs and tissues, and as result of all of this it will
be a radical extension of lifetime of man and cancellation of aging process.
That is how the scientists see the future, and this is not fiction.
Today this
a great challenge for scientists especially for specialists in regenerative
medicine and gerontology.
Also I recommend you to watch this short video:
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