WILL A BREAKTHROUGH IN SCIENCE MODIFY WORLD HISTORY?*
WILL A BREAKTHROUGH IN SCIENCE MODIFY WORLD HISTORY?*

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the impact – personal, national, and global – of a forthcoming breakthrough in biogerontology, extension of health span (extension of human longevity without age-related illnesses, like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, etc.). This breakthrough has been achieved on mice, but to translate it to humans will take additional research requiring about $10 billions for 5 to 10 years. This is a relatively small amount of money, when compared with the trillions of dollars extension of health span will save in coming years for the United States alone. Extension of health span will be very important for Ukraine: 1. Ukraine is losing its population, which will be stopped by extension of health span. 2. Because healthcare will be a great deal less expensive, large amounts of money will be released from the healthcare sector. This money will be available to invigorate the economy and for other worthwhile purposes.

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