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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(1):13-14; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.1.13
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 1, 13-14, January 5, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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Talking Heads, New Bodies — Millennium Predictions for Medicine

Brian Vastag

Methuselah lived 969 years, the Bible says, but he had the benefit of divine intervention. For the rest of us, science fiction has offered a host of other means for near-immortality, ways to cheat even the most refractory of tumors — farming fresh bodies, suspending animation, or uploading our neural patterns into giant databases, brains-on-a-disk.

Trouble is, the National Institutes of Health is not funding many grants . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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