American scientist Robert Lanza is known in the scientific community as a leading expert in the field of stem cells and an ardent supporter of the theory of biocentrism. According to her, death is an illusion of human consciousness, and death is just a transition to a parallel world.
Biography: early years
Robert Paul Lanza was born on February 11, 1956 in Boston. The family soon moved to nearby Stoughton. In this small town, Robert spent his childhood. At school age, he became interested in natural sciences. He especially liked biology.
After school, Robert entered the University of Pennsylvania. Soon he was fired up by scientific research. So, while still at the university, Robert concentrated on the study of chicken genetics. He independently conducted experiments on chickens in his own laboratory, for which he adapted his home basement. Robert even managed to make a small scientific discovery, which he hastened to write about in his report.
Soon scientists from Harvard Medical School became interested in his research. On their recommendation, Robert switched from chicken genetics to stem cell research. For ten years, his scientific work was directed by such famous scientists as Berres Skinner and Christian Barnard.
While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert received a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship. It was paid only to outstanding students who were involved in scientific research. Robert also received a Fulbright grant.
After graduating from the university, Lanza continued his scientific activities. He soon became a medical doctor.
Career
In the late 90s, Robert was involved in human cloning. So, he was part of a group of scientists who were the first in the world to clone human embryos at an early stage and successfully created stem cells from mature ones. The last experiment was based on the somatic transfer of the cell nucleus. Thus, scientists have proven that nuclear transplantation can be used to stop the aging process of the human body.
In 2001 Lanz was the first to clone a gaura. It is the largest bull and is an endangered species. Two years later, he did the same with the banteng. Lanz managed to clone it from frozen skin cells of an animal that died in one of the zoos about 25 years ago.
Robert's research made a splash in the world of science. After that, medical corporations began to "hunt" for him, wishing to get him into their state. This was done by Advanced Cell Technology. In it, Lanza led a group of scientists who grew the retina from stem cells. The use of this technology has made it possible to cure some types of blindness.
Robert Lanza conducted research in the field of tissue engineering. So, with specialists from the University of Wake Forest, he grew bladders from several cells. All of them were transplanted to patients. Lanza also has experience in growing buds.
In 2007, Robert switched from cloning to studying death. He began to actively promote the theory of biocentrism, only not its classical version, but his own. According to her, the scientist compared human life to a perennial plant that wakes up every year to bloom again. Thus, Robert is trying to prove that after death people do not die, but simply go into a parallel universe. He motivates his hypothesis with the well-known law of conservation of energy, according to which energy never disappears, it cannot be created or destroyed. Robert concluded that she could simply "flow" from one world to another.
According to Lanz's theory, everything that a person sees exists thanks to consciousness. It turns out that people believe in death because they were told so, or because consciousness connects life with the work of internal organs.
Of course, Lanz's hypothesis had many critics. Only physicists unconditionally supported his theory, drawing a parallel with the theory of an infinite number of universes with different versions of people and situations. According to her, everything that can happen is already happening somewhere. Consequently, there can be no death a priori.
Lanz believes that human life is not an accident, but a predetermined phenomenon. Even after death, consciousness will always remain in the present. It is in balance between an incomprehensible future and an infinite past, representing a movement between universes along the edge of time with other destinies, etc.
Lanza has written numerous reports, articles and books on biocentrism. He also has works on cloning.
In 2010, Robert was included in the list of scientists whose developments will have a huge impact on the development of biotechnology in the next 20 years. In 2014, he was named one of the 100 Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine. Lanz has several awards, including the National Institutes of Health.
Lanza currently works for the international corporation Astellas Pharma. In it, he directs the Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Robert also conducts visiting lectures, where he shares the results of his scientific work.
Personal life
Robert Lanza is married. There is no detailed information about his wife. There is no information about the presence of children. Lanza is known to have lived in Clinton, a small Massachusetts town in recent years. He still spends a lot of time in the scientific laboratory, where he continues to work on the topic of cloning.
