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Google Ventures' Bill Maris said he thinks humans can live to 500 years old Follow Follow This will be due to medical breakthroughs and a rise in biomechanics @DailyMail Daily Mail Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil previously said we'd be uploading Follow Follow @dailymailtech Daily Mail our brains to machines by 2045 Google Ventures has invested in genetics irms and cancer startups Download our Download our iPhone app Android app Tech giant also set up Calico - anti-ageing research and development labs Mr Maris said: 'We have the tools to achieve anything that you have the audacity Today's headlines Most Read to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die' The countdown begins: NASA's Parker Solar Probe will blast off tomorrow on But professor Sir Colin Blakemore believes there's a limit on human life historic mission to touch the... Perseids meteor shower will be brighter than Neurobiologist believes 120 years ‘might be an absolute to human lifespan’ EVER this year because it coincides with a This is because living for longer is ‘so rarely exceeded’ that even with medical new moon: Here's how... advances, it is unlikely this threshold will be raised How to score the perfect penalty EVERY time! Scientists says players should always wait for the keeper to... By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON FOR MAILONLINE Have YOU put your Christmas tree up yet? PUBLISHED: 11:20 EDT, 9 March 2015 | UPDATED: 11:47 EDT, 9 March 2015 Putting your festive decorations up earlier in the year makes you... The mystery of Jupiter's coloured bands 776 138 is finally solved! Deep jet streams move shares View comments clouds of ammonia across... Amateur treasure hunter, 30, unearths Elizabethan gold signet ring worth £10,000 in Google has invested in taxi irms, smart a field near Glastonbury... thermostats and even artiicial Plight of the critically endangered orcas in the Pacific Northwest: Pod that includes intelligence but it is also setting its grieving mother whale... sights on immortality - or at least Can't get a job? Get a tattoo! Body art is now so fashionable, it makes you MORE likely to increasing our lives ive-fold. get a job 'World's only' woolly mammoth hair hat In an interview with Bloomberg, Google goes on sale for $10,000 in Russia (but Ventures' president Bill Maris said he experts say it's too prickly... Expert warns satellites could be hacked and thinks it's possible to live to 500 years used as giant 'radio frequency weapons,' as old. researchers gather... The rise of 'Frankenfood': Gene-editing startups race to develop controversial And this will be helped by medical crops with the most desirable... breakthroughs as well as a rise in Watch the heart-warming moment a chimp biomechanics. plays 'airplane' with its baby (and shows the child isn't afraid of a... Tesla's former head of engineering Doug He has already ploughed money into Field has left the company to work on genetics irms and cancer diagnostic Apple's secretive 'Project... startups and said: 'We have the tools in Facebook web traffic nearly HALVES in just two years, with younger users flocking to rival the life sciences to achieve anything that YouTube instead you have the audacity to envision. I just Cyber criminals are using Facebook +7 Messenger to trick people into opening hope to live long enough not to die.' malicious links that harvest their... In an interview with Bloomberg, Google MORE HEADLINES Mr Maris founded Google Ventures in Ventures' president Bill Maris (pictured) said 2009 and oversees all of the fund’s he thinks it's possible for humans to live to

global activities. 500 years old FEMAIL TODAY Erika Christensen He studied neuroscience at Middlebury reveals she gave birth to baby girl a home with College and conducted neurobiology research at Duke University. the help of husband Cole Maness http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2986493/Google-says-s-possible-humans-live-500-YEARS-investing-firms-hoping-extend-lives-fiv… 1/21 2018/8/11 Google Ventures' Bill Maris says humans could live for 500 YEARS | Daily Mail Online Elsewhere he has advised Aurolab in the development of a hydrophobic acrylic lens 'Incredible Dad delivered her all by himself.' for cataract blindness, and helped develop Google’s Calico project. +99

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that has been quoted as the 'real absolute limit to human lifespan'. Bethenny Frankel is left 'heartbroken' after on-off boyfriend Dennis SHARE THIS RELATED ARTICLES Shields, 51, is found ARTICLE dead in his Trump Tower home from Will.i.am believes 3D Forget charging 'overdosing on printers will build stations, this TYRE oxycodone' PEOPLE in 'our... could soon power Carrie Underwood Necklace that knows Are smartphones teases her tiny baby when you've eaten too making us STUPID? bump from backstage of the Grand Ole Opry shares much: Choker sends... 'Googling' information 776 The American Idol winner gave the world a look at her baby bump Google's director of engineering, and colleague of Mr Maris, Ray Kurzweil has previously said that in just over 30 years humans will be able to upload their entire Jennifer Aniston stuns in a glamorous red minds to computers and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity. dress as she films scenes with Adam At the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York last year, Mr Kurzweil Sandler for upcoming Netflix comedy Murder claimed that the biological parts of our body will be replaced with mechanical parts Mystery and this could happen as early as 2100. Kourtney Kardashian 'will NEVER get back together with Scott Disick as she sees him more as a friend'... after duo reunited at Kylie's birthday

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Caitlyn Jenner sends daughter Kylie love after attending lavish 21st birthday party... despite being estranged +7 from the Kardashian family Mr Maris founded Google Ventures in 2009 and helped develop Google’s Calico project - a 'So much fun last night' research and development company set up in 2013 to tackle 'ageing and associated diseases' Nicole Kidman and (website pictured). Google co-founder Larry Page said it would focus on 'health, wellbeing and Keith Urban relist their longevity' rustic four-bedroom Tennessee abode for $2.75million... two months after failing to sell it

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David and Victoria Beckham 'jet to $6.3k-a- +7 night resort dubbed the "best hotel in the world" on private island with Google's director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil (pictured), previously said that in just over 30 their kids' following years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally Indonesian earthquakes immortal - an event called singularity. He believes biological parts of our body will be replaced with mechanical parts as early as 2100. Blac Chyna shares cheeky Instagram photos after looking He referred to Moore's Law that states the power of computing doubles, on average, significantly less curvy earlier in the day every two years quoting the developments from genetic sequencing and 3D Shared images of her re- plumped bottom printing.

Heidi Klum, 45, looks In Kurweil's book, The Singularity Is Near, he plots this development and journey sensational in a cleavage-baring gown towards singularity in a graph. as she arrives at the UNICEF Gala in Sardinia This singularity is also referred to as digital immortality because brains and a with her toyboy boyfriend Tom, 28 person's intelligence will be digitally stored forever, even after they die. Jennifer Lopez stays He also added that this will be possible through neural engineering and referenced in shape with on-deck workout while A-Rod the recent strides made towards modeling the brain and technologies which can high dives into the sea replace biological functions. during couple's yacht retreat Working out on vacation Examples of such technology include the cochlear implant - an implant that is attached to the brain's cochlear nerve and electronically stimulates it to restore Nicole Scherzinger smoulders as she hearing to someone who is deaf. flaunts her abs and toned legs in a sizzling ruby co-ord for UNICEF gala in Italy

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Beatrice and Eugenie lament having to juggle a job and their royal +7 engagements WITHOUT a taxpayer-funded salary like Harry and Dr Pankaj Kapahi from the Buck Institute for Research On Ageing agrees that scientiic William's breakthroughs could extend human lives dramatically. He made these claims after tweaking genetic pathways in a Caenorhabditis elegans worm (stock image), which successfully Play time! Pink looks boosted the creature's lifespan by a factor of ive happy and healthy as she enjoys the park with her kids Jameson, one, Other examples include technology that can restore motor skills after the nervous and Willow, seven, after cancelling her Sydney system is damaged. concerts due to illness

And other experts are in agreement with both Mr Maris and Mr Kurzweil. Mark Consuelos' lookalike son Michael, 21, set to play teen Dr Pankaj Kapahi from the Buck Institute for Research On Ageing believes that version of his Riverdale baddie Hiram Lodge scientiic breakthroughs could potential extend human lives dramatically, by four or Casting is filling out on ive fold. the flashback episode

He made these claims after tweaking two genetic pathways in the lab worm Alexandra Daddario flashes long legs as her Caenorhabditis elegans, which successfully boosted the creature's lifespan by a gingham dress gets swept up by the wind factor of ive. during girls night out Endured a small wardrobe malfunction While it could take years of research to IS 120-YEARS-OLD THE UPPER extend humans’ lives in the same way, LIMIT OF HUMAN LIFESPAN? Ashley Roberts the study raises the prospect of anti- 'looking for love on Mr Maris' claims contradict those made British TV show Strictly ageing treatments informed by genetic Come Dancing and is recently at a gerontology conference eager to be paired with interactions, according to Dr Kapahi. a hunky single male' by Professor Sir Colin Blakemore. C. elegans, a type of worm, was the irst animal to have its whole genome, or Sir Blakemore, a neurobiologist and John Mayer's Beverly Hills home discovered genetic code, mapped, and has been former chief executive of the British 'ransacked' after thief Medical Research Council, said there is made off with over widely used in studies of ageing and $100K of property lifespan. a ceiling on how long humans can live, Beverly-Hills area home and how much the body can age. was burglarized

The research, reported in the journal Cell Rita Ora experiences a Reports, involved blocking key And he stated that that 120 years ‘might near wardrobe be a real absolute limit to human malfunction as she molecules that affect the action of flashes her underwear insulin and a nutrient signalling pathway lifespan.’ in risqué UNICEF gown She accidentally flashed a called Target of Rapamycin (TOR). little too much He added people living for longer than Single mutations in the TOR pathway 120 years is ‘so rarely exceeded’ that, Rita Ora leads the glamor in multicolored were known to extend the lifespan of C. even with medical and technological silk gown as she joins advances, it is unlikely this upper Emily Ratajkowski and elegans by 30 per cent, while insulin- Nicole Scherzinger on signalling mutations could double the threshold will be raised. the red carpet at UNICEF Summer Gala in amount of time they lived. Italy

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Adding the two together might have The comments were made at an event Shanina Shaik's smitten husband DJ been expected to extend longevity by with a panel of gerontologists and Ruckus can't tear his +99 130 per cent, but the combined impact scientists where they discussed the eyes away from the supermodel's cleavage turned out to be much greater. future of medicine, global health as they attend UNICEF concerns and life expectancy. gala in Sardinia The research may explain why it has Share Jessica Alba keeps proved so diicult to identify single It agreed that medicines will have a casual and cool for day genes responsible for the long lives limited effect on extending human life, of shopping with her three children in enjoyed by human centenarians. and it was more important to improve Beverly Hills Opted for a causal but the health and quality of life for older comfortable look ‘It's quite probable that interactions people, rather than prolonging it. between genes are critical in those Kylie Jenner's LAVISH birthday gifts revealed: fortunate enough to live very long, The panel also stated it was key to Travis Scott cuddles healthy lives,’ said Dr Kapahi. improve the life expectancy in poorer Stormi while gifting 'wifey' an old fashion regions, or areas where people Rolls-Royce... and she Future research is expected to use mice typically die much younger than other gets a unicorn bike too to see if the same effects occur in areas. Jennifer Lopez, 49, mammals. flaunts curves in a scanty emerald ‘The idea would be to use mice swimsuit and enjoys a workout with boyfriend genetically engineered to have suppressed insulin signalling and then treat them Alex Rodriguez during Italian getaway with the drug rapamycin, which is well-known to suppress the TOR pathway,’ Dr

Kapahi said. Bethenny Frankel's on-off boyfriend Dennis Shields, 51, 'died of a But these claims contradict those made more recently at a gerontology conference heart attack in his by Professor Sir Colin Blakemore. Trump Tower apartment after overdosing on oxycodone'

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Sir Blakemore, a neurobiologist and former chief executive of the British Medical LuAnn de Lesseps looks happy and healthy Research Council, said there is a ceiling on how long humans can live, and how in plunging sky blue dress following stint in much the body can age - and he stated that that 120 years ‘might be a real absolute rehab limit to human lifespan.’ She's battled alcohol addiction for some time He added that people living for longer THE RISE OF CENTENARIANS Khloe Kardashian tells than 120 years is ‘so rarely exceeded’ Kourtney to 'f*ck off' The number of people living to 100 in during group therapy that, even with medical and discussion as the technological advances, it is unlikely this the UK has increased by 71 per cent in sisterly feud explodes the last ten years, and has shot up more on Keeping Up With The upper threshold will be raised. Kardashians than ive-fold since the Eighties. The comments were made at an event Ciara twerks in a loin There are now more than half a million cloth as she dances in with a panel of gerontologists and the desert for seductive scientists where they discussed the people aged 90 and above living in this new Freak Me music video future of medicine, global health country, with nearly 14,000 of them The 32-year-old singer shared tantalizing clips concerns and life expectancy. aged more than 100, compared to just 2,500 in 1980. REVEALED: Instagram It agreed that medicines will have a model and Kardashian There are also 710 people who have pal is identified as limited effect on extending human life, blonde who was carried and it was more important to improve lived beyond their 105th birthday, up out of Kylie Jenner's from 340 ten years ago. 21st birthday party the health and quality of life for older FACE DOWN on a people, rather than prolonging it. stretcher Data released by the Oice for National Marilyn Manson not The panel also stated it was key to Statistics also showed life expectancy charged by Los Angeles has increased again, with the gap County District Attorney improve the life expectancy in poorer after rape allegation between the sexes continuing to close. surfaces regions, or areas where people typically Decided not to pursue die much younger than other areas. rape charges Men born this year can expect to live to The 2014 Global AgeWatch Index, which 78, while women will reach 82 on Nicki Minaj playfully average. That is compared to just 70 for disses Drake, Meek Mill, ranks 96 nations on the quality of life for DJ Khaled, and more on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2986493/Google-says-s-possible-humans-live-500-YEARS-investing-firms-hoping-extend-lives-fiv… 6/21 2018/8/11 Google Ventures' Bill Maris says humans could live for 500 YEARS | Daily Mail Online the elderly, recently stated that by 2050, men born between 1980 and 1982, and new track Barbie Dreams the number of over 60s will be 21 per 76 for women. She isn't scared of +99 cent of the global population. anyone

This is almost double the current igure of 12 per cent. Share The proportion of over-80s is growing fastest, too – projected to rise from two per cent now to four per cent of the global population by 2050.

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