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“In the next two decades it may be possible to increase the body’s healing power, induce it to regenerate lost limbs or organs, even to slow or halt human aging.”

Bold projections, brought to you by the unstoppable agents of gene therapy.
Humans in the near future will be able to customize and physically improve themselves, says Professor Lee Sweeney, by means of some simple injections. “One of these days you could “just take a few injections of the virus [that delivers the genes] and a month later, while you’re watching television, your muscles have gotten bigger.”

If you survive long enough, you might just make it to witness how people’s lives become a huge Baywatch episode, complete with beautiful people with flawless skin, never grow old, never get sick, and who keep referring to themselves as “The Hoff.”

via FAST COMPANY

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