Jul 19 2009
Continuing on the aging meme…
Posted by samir
Last week, we’d reported the results from the success of Rapamycin in increasing mice longevity.
Assuming the life expectancy improvements continue at the rate of three months per year, here are some estimates of how long one can expect to live given the year of birth. The expected life expectancy in the US today, for example, is somewhere of the order of 78 years. But by the time the person born today is 78, the life expectancy would have gone well past 110. Here is some math on expected life expectancy at birth and the actual life expectancy:
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