This video orig­i­nal­ly up­load­ed by Je­ri­as­ka (http://vimeo.com/je­ri­as­ka) @ Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/1323634) These videos are from the UAB­BA Con­fer­ence spon­sored by the Methuse­lah Foun­da­tion: http://www.methuse­lah­foun­da­tion.org/UAB­BA/ The free pub­lic event pre­ced­ing the Un­der­stand­ing Ag­ing con­fer­ence or­ga­nized by the Methuse­lah Foun­da­tion was en­ti­tled “Ag­ing: the dis­ease, the cure, the im­pli­ca­tions.” Held in Royce Hall at UCLA on the evening of June 27th, 2008, the event aimed at putting the post­pone­ment of ag­ing more firm­ly on the po­lit­i­cal and so­cial map than ev­er be­fore. There, biogeron­tol­o­gist Aubrey de Grey of­fered his own un­der­ly­ing ar­gu­ments for why ag­ing can and should be the tar­get of cur­rent-​day re­gen­er­a­tive medicine