• International Conference on Aging & Longevity
• Moscow, Russia
• August 27-28, 2007
• Description (announcement from Dr. Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D.):
  

  I am pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference on Aging & Longevity Studies, which brings together researchers from Russia and the United States at Moscow State University, this month.

  This unusual, brain-storming Conference is organized by Professor Vladimir Skulachev, the member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Director of the A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology at Moscow State University, Moscow.

  Note that the term “phenoptosis” used in this conference program is a code word for “programmed death,” and that the title of the conference (see below) may cause an excitement in the transhumanism movement. Frankly speaking, the conference is centered around this ‘crazy’ scientific idea:

  Is aging an atavistic program that can be ’simply’ switched off?

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