What would it feel like to live forever? Not constantly growing older, instead living forever as a young adult of twenty or thirty. While it seems like nothing but a dream, many are convinced that immortality is just around the corner of medical science and technology. Scott Wainner is one of these living forever advocates.

As a website developer who rode the wave of the dot com craze, lasted through the bubble burst and came back yet again, Scott is a premium source for new emerging technology. He originally brought this revolutionary theory of aging to my attention when he posted about the prevalence of longevity research at the San Diego Emerging Tech Conference. The skilled biologists and geneticists who are conducting this research believe that aging is something that happens at a cellular level and can therefore be prevented.

The normal perception of aging is that it is inevitable, something that each of us must face in time. This perception is not wrong per say, just old fashioned. There is no reason for us to sit idly by and let father time creep up on us. Instead, we should be searching for new ways to alter our cellular biology. If science could prefect an altered cell—a cell that would continue to divide past the normal age mark of 80 or 90 years old—it is possible that irregular growth diseases like cancer could be all but eradicated. This alone would extend the average life expectancy well into the nineties. These altered cells could then be used to treat aging cells and keep them from losing their ability to divide.

All in all, this is a very interesting step for modern medical research to take. We all dream of the fountain of youth, why not go for it?

Some resources for those wanting to know more about cellular experiments:

Life Expectancy Of Yeast Extended To 800 In Yeast Years
The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old
Rare Gene Mutation Plays Role in Longevity
The Next Big Thing? (Stanley Bing, Fortune.com)