Immortality It seems to have become One of Vladimir Putin’s latest obsessions. After his, Russian President He has recently visited a laboratory with the “fruit that prolongs youth.”
As the British media collects Putin has been recorded during his displacement to Sirius Scientific Park from the Russian town of Sochi. The center is funded by Kremlin himself.
On the visit, Roman Ivanov, president of the Academic Council of the Sirius University, showed the Russian president a Strawberry that has been genetically modified to contain 12 times more quercetin than usual.
Quercetin is polyphenolic antioxidant that has anti -aging properties. That is the reason why it has been decided to multiply its presence in the fruit.
In that sense, Ivanov explained to Putin that Quercetin is “a beneficial substance, a flavonoid with antioxidant properties. That is, We have achieved strawberries that rejuvenate. “
Likewise, the Russian President had the opportunity to observe some Merlot grapes modified biologically to be resistant to fungal infections. “For the first time in the world, we are able to edit the grape genome and obtain rising grapes to fungal infections,” said the president of the Academic Council of the Sirius University before Putin.
The debate between Putin and Xi Jinping about immortality
It should be remembered that last week, during a military parade in Tiananmen (China) An open microphone captured the Russian president and to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, discussing immortality.
“Before, people rarely lived up to 70 years, but today, at age 70 you are still a child”XI told Putin through a translator, to which the Russian president replied that “with the development of biotechnology, Human organs can continuously transplant and people can live younger and more, and even achieve immortality. “
