At the India Today Conclave 2025, the conversation turned to what might be the ultimate human aspiration, not just delaying death but questioning if ageing itself can be re-engineered. Dr Avi Roy, biomedical scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Founders Health and the London Longevity Club, led the discussion with provocative clarity.

“Immortality, I don’t think any real relevant scientist is thinking of,” Dr Roy clarified at the outset. “But we are thinking of negligible senescence or think of it as functional immortality.”

He explained that immortality in the vampire or science-fiction sense was a distraction. Instead, longevity science studies animals like the bowhead whale, which can live for up to 300 years, resisting age-related diseases like cancer. “What you are is more lik

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