This is why I approve of domesticated cats, they keep rat telomeres from getting short.   

I did love the first comment...

If a solution to human aging is ever found definitively, we will never know about it. World economies could not sustain populations in which people only perished due to tragic circumstances. This discovery would be squashed faster than you can say " Forget about your Nobel Prize,Doctor " You may,however, start suspecting that individuals in the highest spectrum of society and politicis are ,in fact, vampires..... and they may very well be.

It started out so sane.