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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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(Via In the Pipeline) A study reported in Nature magazine concludes that Rapamycin can increase the longevity of mice. The effect seems to be better than that of Resveratrol, which has also shown anti-aging effects in several organisms.

According to a 2002 paper in the journal Science, the longevity of women has been increasing linearly at the rate of 3 months per year. We may even see that rate accelerate within our lifetime. So get ready to live well past 100.

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