I joined her and made a frank appraisal of the scene I witnessed behind the window.Suspended in midair a long glass and metal tube took up half of the stark room. Inside the cocoon-like structure, a person laid prone, an old man by the looks of him, naked except for a mesh band across his middle.I turned to Libby and frowned."You say, this Mr. Grover started out as a thirty-year-old and somehow turned into an old man overnight."

"Yes, and he continues to age.A pack of ...