On 07-Dec-08 21:00, Darren New wrote:

> 
>> I think we may know about the same amount about both issues. Not a 
>> lot, but growing rapidly.
> 
> Hmmmm...  I've heard many people say we know most of what we need to 
> know to figure out how to live longer.  I've heard very few serious 
> scientists say anything about modifying your brain to change how you think.
Not how you think but how you develop. We are doing quite a lot on 
embryology of the heart. No doubt other people are doing the same sort 
of experiments with the brain. You know, knocking a gene out here or 
there. Modifying a regulatory gene, to get it expressed in a certain 
part of the body or not. That sort of thing.

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