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Dec 1, 2016

Neuroscience Is a Tool of War

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, drones, government, military, neuroscience

What could once only be imagined in science fiction is now increasingly coming to fruition: Drones can be flown by human brains’ thoughts. Pharmaceuticals can help soldiers forget traumatic experiences or produce feelings of trust to encourage confession in interrogation. DARPA-funded research is working on everything from implanting brain chips to “neural dust” in an effort to alleviate the effects of traumatic experience in war. Invisible microwave beams produced by military contractors and tested on U.S. prisoners can produce the sensation of burning at a distance.

What all these techniques and technologies have in common is that they’re recent neuroscientific breakthroughs propelled by military research within a broader context of rapid neuroscientific development, driven by massive government-funded projects in both America and the European Union. Even while much about the brain remains mysterious, this research has contributed to the rapid and startling development of neuroscientific technology.

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Dec 1, 2016

Russia unveils CLONE DOGS that will work with Putin’s Special Forces

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

The CLONED dogs of war: Russia unveils genetically-enhanced canines which will work with Putin’s Special Forces and were created by scientist attempting to restore woolly mammoths

  • The three Belgian Malinois were cloned by a South Korean professor
  • He also aims to one day restore extinct woolly mammoths to Siberia
  • Dr Hwang Woo Suk gifted the dogs — each valued at $100,000 — to police
  • The will be used in Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region in the world

By Will Stewart In Moscow for MailOnline

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Nov 30, 2016

Drugs to Extend Life — Nathaniel David, CEO of Unity Biotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Nathaniel David from Unity Biotech giving a talk about the potential of Senolytics and how science can break the natural limit to lifespan. David is the CEO of Unity Biotechnology a company taking SENS based Senolytic drugs into human clinical trials in the next year or so. Very exciting as this is the first true rejuvenation biotechnology therapy to be deployed in humans.


Unity is leading the way for the first rejuvenation technologies in the #sens model. Here we have Nathaniel David from Unity talking about the potential of Senolytics and increased lifespans.

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Nov 30, 2016

Mitochondrial Repair Project

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

A look back at one of the milestones for SRF and the first successful fundraiser on Lifespan.io for MitoSENS.


We need your support at this critical juncture of the MitoSENS project. The MitoSENS team has already demonstrated the rescue of cells containing mitochondrial mutations, and has recently generated highly promising preliminary data showing the rescue of the complete loss of a mitochondrial gene. Our next steps will focus on improving the effectiveness of the targeting system, so that we can repeat our success with one mitochondrial gene to all thirteen. We will then transition this work into animal models of mitochondrial dysfunction. This would be a crucial step in what may be the development of an eventual cure for aging and aging related diseases.

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Nov 29, 2016

Depression Treatment

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, wearables

https://youtube.com/watch?v=melzXkH8KPY

The Happy Headband. Take my money.


The Fisher Wallace Stimulator® is a wearable neurostimulation device that is cleared by the FDA to treat depression and anxiety. During each 20-minute treatment session, the device gently stimulates the brain to produce serotonin and other neurochemicals that reduce depression and anxiety (and support healthy mood and sleep). The device has been proven to be safe and effective in multiple published studies conducted at top institutions such as Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital.

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Nov 29, 2016

Vote for your scientific breakthrough of the year!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Vote for senolytics and help get aging research into public view.


Please VOTE NOW for senescent cell removal (The purge that refreshes) and help make aging research the science breakthrough of the year and get rejuvenation biotechnology into the public eye.

#aging #sens

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Nov 29, 2016

Dual Gene Therapy Has Beneficial Effects On Blood Biomarkers And Muscle Composition

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

More results concerning Liz Parrish, this is the important part:

No negative effects have been reported, and there are no visible detrimental effects in blood analysis thus far; providing tentative evidence of safety in the first human test of BioViva’s dual gene therapy strategy.


Biomarker analysis and MRI imaging data from the past year have revealed beneficial metabolic changes and muscle improvement in Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of BioViva USA Inc. and recipient of BioViva’s experimental dual gene therapy in September 2015.

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Nov 29, 2016

SRF Newsletter — November 23rd 2016

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The new SENS Research Newsletter is out!


SENS Research Foundation email newsletter from 28th November 2016.

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Nov 29, 2016

Diamond Batteries Made of Nuclear Waste Can Generate Power For Thousands of Years

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy, satellites, sustainability

In Brief

  • Scientist have developed an ingenious means of converting nuclear power plant waste (76,430 metric tons in the US alone) into sustainable diamond batteries.
  • These long-lasting batteries could be a clean and safe way to power spacecraft, satellites, and even medical devices.

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Nov 28, 2016

Brain Implants that Augment the Human Brain Using AI

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ySsv5-jSqss

BMI implant leveraging AI.


You probably clicked on this article because the idea of using brain implants to allow artificial intelligence (AI) to read your brain sounds futuristic and fascinating. It is fascinating, but it’s not as futuristic as you might think. Before we start talking about brain implants and how to augment the human brain using AI, we need to put some context around human intelligence and why we might want to tinker with it.

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