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Feb 19, 2018

Breakthroughs in Targeted Cancer Therapies to Fight Tumors

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New targeted cancer therapies have emerged to fight tumors, and scientists have much more in the pipeline.


Summary: New targeted cancer therapies have been highlighted this month as emerging technologies to fight tumors, and scientists have much more in the pipeline. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

Targeted cancer therapies – the most famous of which are immunotherapies such as CAR T-cell therapy – are the current focus of excitement in cancer treatment. New therapies and developments in the immunotherapy field prompted the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to update their guidance on targeted cancer therapies a little over a week ago. As the NCI says.

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Feb 19, 2018

Breakthrough cancer immunotherapy treatments to be ‘curative’ by 2025 says prominent research head

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Summary: Cancer immunotherapy treatments and other approaches to cure nearly all cancers within 8 years says Dr. Gilliland, a prominent cancer research head. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and in an opinion piece published at the beginning of this month, writes.

“I’ve gone on record to say that by 2025, cancer researchers will have developed curative therapeutic approaches for most if not all cancers.”

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Feb 19, 2018

Team paves the way for immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumors

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Team paves the way for cancer immunotherapy demonstrating a novel technique that attacked tumors and inhibited cancers from spreading.


Summary: Team paves the way for cancer immunotherapy with a novel technique that attacked tumors and inhibited cancers from spreading. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

While cancer immunotherapy is a powerful treatment for some types of tumors, up until now, it hasn’t worked well on colon cancer.

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Feb 19, 2018

Does saving more lives lead to overpopulation?

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Longevity don’t lead to demographic crisis.

Explains why the improvement of health is not a danger.


As counterintuitive as it may seem, population sizes don’t go up as the world gets healthier. They go down. Here’s why.

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Feb 19, 2018

Human beings could achieve immortality by 2050

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, genetics, life extension, robotics/AI

Dr Ian Pearson, a leading futurologist from Ipswich, claims that if people can survive until 2050 they could live forever thanks to advances in AI, android bodies and genetic engineering.

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Feb 19, 2018

Health and the crypto-economy. Health Blockchain

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, economics, life extension, robotics/AI

AI and blockchain, the main innovations in #Longevity, are united in DAYS.exchange platform.

DAYS tokens are to be sort of guarrantee for longevity services effectiveness.


DAYS.exchange partner supported Longevity Impact Forum.

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Feb 18, 2018

Will 100 be the new 60? Stem cell start-up that raised $250 million could extend lifespan

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Longevity become hottest object for investments;

Startup founded 5 moths ago just raised $250 million.


The start-up, which launched in September and is headquartered in Warren, N.J., announced Thursday it has raised $250 million in venture capital from global biopharmaceutical company Celgene, biotechnology company United Therapeutics Corporation, biopharmaceutical company Sorrento Therapeutics, DNA sequencing and machine learning company Human Longevity, Inc.

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Feb 18, 2018

Artificial muscles power up with new gel-based robotics

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, life extension, robotics/AI, wearables

A collaborative research team has designed a wearable robot to support a person’s hip joint while walking. The team, led by Minoru Hashimoto, a professor of textile science and technology at Shinshu University in Japan, published the details of their prototype in Smart Materials and Structures, a journal published by the Institute of Physics.

“With a rapidly aging society, an increasing number of elderly people require care after suffering from stroke, and other-age related disabilities. Various technologies, devices, and robots are emerging to aid caretakers,” wrote Hashimoto, noting that several technologies meant to assist a person with walking are often cumbersome to the user. “[In our] current study, [we] sought to develop a lightweight, soft, wearable assist wear for supporting activities of daily life for older people with weakened muscles and those with mobility issues.”

The wearable system consists of plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel, mesh electrodes, and applied voltage. The mesh electrodes sandwich the gel, and when voltage is applied, the gel flexes and contracts, like a muscle. It’s a wearable actuator, the mechanism that causes movement.

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Feb 16, 2018

Forever Young: The Documentary — BBC News

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

Is ageing a disease? One that can be ‘cured’? BBC’s Gabriela Torres meets the self-experimenters and scientists who are trying to dramatically extend our lives.

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Feb 15, 2018

Undoing Aging Conference – Berlin 2018

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The Undoing Aging 2018 Conference is coming to Berlin to discuss the science of rejuvenation biotech!


The SENS Research Foundation and the Forever Healthy Foundation have joined forces to host an exciting conference about rejuvenation biotechnology on March 15–17, 2018 at the Umspannwerk Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany.

A conference for everyone

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