Get a mouse to live 10 years, win $17K
I’m a big fan of living forever. A lifetime of reading bad sci-fi, and impressionable college years spent reading Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition have molded me into someone who trulty beleives we will defeat aging and death within the next 100 years. Yeah, I’m a whacko.. but I’m not the only one. Just found out about The Methuselah Mouse Prize, a prize fund to be awarded to the researchers that manage to get a mouse to live past a certain age. Mice, of cours,e like most living things, have a certain expected life span. They also have a lot in common, genetically speaking, with humans, which is one of the reasons we keep running so many tests on them. Well, the Prize will be awarded to those who mange to extend a mouse’s life, through a variety of means, past a certain point. From their website:
The Methuselah Mouse prize is an initiative designed to further the development of truly effective anti-aging interventions, by promoting public interest and involvement in research on mammalian life extension and by encouraging more such research to be done.
Sounds like a noble enough endeavour to me!
