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Experiments in Aging
Just imagine how much happier you would be if a prematurely deceased loved one were alive, or a debilitated one were vigorous—and multiply that good by several billion, in perpetuity. Given this potential bonanza, the primary moral goal for today's bioethics can be summarized in a single sentence. Get out of the way.
—Steven Pinker, “Boston Globe, A Moral Imperative for Bioethics”
She gave her patients their customized primary injections, and for three days and three nights everything went as planned. Which was to say, nothing happened as the telomere replicators distributed themselves throughout the bodies of the patients.
On the morning of the fourth day Dash slumped exhausted over her desk, her head cradled in her arms. She heard heavy, fast footsteps come th
