Professor João Pedro de Magalhães from the University of Birmingham, a molecular biogerontology expert, believes that human lifespan could potentially reach 20,000 years with scientific and technological advances. He argues that achieving this requires DNA repair and cellular reprogramming.
According to him, aging is driven by complex genetic programs that may become harmful later in life. By altering these programs and redesigning human biology at the cellular level, aging could be overcome.
Magalhães stresses that the solution is not simply discovering the next drug, but rather reprogramming cells and genes. He believes that, at least theoretically, the genetic “software” of humans can be rewritten and human biology redesigned.
