In our race to achieve immortality, a group of researchers might have discovered something epic. The secret to cheat death itself!

They claim that the human body stops aging or growing older after it completes 105 years of being alive. Ok, that's great. But what does that really mean?

New research published in the scientific journal Science suggests something quite astonishing --  that humans can be functionally immortal. It proves conclusively that the human body stops aging after turning 105 years old.

The research took into consideration high-quality data from Italians aged 105 and older. They discovered that human death rates spiked rapidly up to about the age of 80, but then the death rate starts to slow and eventually plateaus after the age of 105.

Nor surprisingly, this research has drawn a lot of heat from the rest of the scientific community, since it was established wisdom that there is a definite limit to the human lifespan -- which is estimated to be at 125 years. 

What the researchers behind this paper have proved without doubt is an old statistical model -- also referred to as the Gompertz model -- which claimed that human mortality increases with increase in age. 

This most likely doesn't mean that humans are immortal. But it does point to a point in the life of a human body where it stops degrading or growing old. This by itself can be great news for scientists chasing human immortality, because through gene therapy or CRISPR gene-editing you can find that tipping point where the body stops growing older.

And maybe somewhere in the future, we may devise a way where you can activate that point earlier in life and, well, stop growing old. Wouldn't that be something now?

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