Aubrey de Grey on TEDTalks

This'll be the last "life extension" themed post this month, I promise.

Aubrey de Grey is an interesting guy whose theories and work has attracted a lot of controversy over the last few years. de Grey is the founder of SENS - Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence - which, according to the site attempts to develop a "practical approach to developing real anti-aging medicine".

Despite his appearance, de Gray isn't all types of crazy, having worked in the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University and currently involved with the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing.

I can't pretend to have more than a basic understanding of de Gray's arguments, and it's fair to say that not everyone agrees with him (see the Wikipedia article on the MIT Technology Review controversy for more details on that). Still, I find his ideas interesting and plausible to a layman such as myself.

As an introduction of sorts, below is a speech he gave at a TED conference in 2005. Run time is a touch over 20 mins.