Nov 8, 2015
Petition to deem ageing as a disease
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
We are a community that educates and invests in scientific research and technologies enhancing the human biological condition.
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Nov 6, 2015
Big Data and Genetic Sequencing Will Help Extend the Human Lifespan
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Gooooood, good.
Big data will help crack the code on aging.
Two of the leading scientists at the edge of the medical revolution believe that our life expectancy could start creeping up toward the triple digits.
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Nov 3, 2015
Sneak Peek: Altering Genes to Extend Human Lifespan
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: innovation, life extension
I did not see this special, but the usual negative comments follow the vid.
Aging itself IS modifiable. The question now is, is it modifiable in us?
Find out on Breakthrough, premiering Sunday 9/8c.
I am in my mid 40’s. Hurry the fuck up.
In the most complete tally yet, scientists have identified nearly 1,500 genes that are connected to how we age.
Nov 2, 2015
Cryonics Is No Fantasy, Should We Be Taking It Seriously?
Posted by Roy in categories: cryonics, life extension, materials, neuroscience
Most science starts off at the fringe and slowly makes it way to the mainstream. Cryopreservation is commonly achieved in a laboratory setting, but for many years serious applications remained confined to science fiction. Is it time to change how we see cryonics?
The science of freezing things
Scientific research requires great storage, and huge amounts of material including cells are frozen every day to be used at the later date. If you follow the correct protocols, many forms of life can be re-awakened after their cryogenic sleep. DMSO, propylene glycol and glycerol help abolish problems like ice crystals which can rupture cells, and storage temperatures can drop to below −120 °C. At these levels biological reactions are essentially halted.
Oct 31, 2015
Russian scientist seeks immortality, injects himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, education, life extension
In the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ taught us how to attain eternal life. In John 6:71, for example, Jesus Christ said: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
A Russian scientist, however, believes that he can have eternal life through the power of science, more specifically through the power of 3.5-million-year-old bacteria.
Oct 31, 2015
Florida doctor hopes to reverse the aging process
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Reversing the aging process with young blood transfusions.
WPBF 25 News anchor Paul LaGrone has more on a South Florida doctor looking to help people reverse the signs of aging.
Oct 31, 2015
Sounds Gross, But Intestinal Worms Can Actually Be Good For You
Posted by Matthew Holt in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Intestinal worms that can reduce inflammation. Could we GMO a probiotic worm to help reduce aging?
Intestinal worms have an incredibly bad reputation. The thought of them sneaking around inside our bodies and eating us from the inside is pretty unpleasant. But for decades, results coming out of lab after lab have shown that some kinds of helminths can be extremely beneficial to their host, and aren’t parasites at all.
Just 100 years ago, before toilets and running water were commonplace, everybody had regular exposure to intestinal worms. Thanks in part to modern plumbing, people in the industrialized world have now lost almost all of their worms, with the exception of occasional pinworms in some children.
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Oct 31, 2015
Why Focusing On The Obesity Epidemic Distracts Us From The Aging Epidemic
Posted by Robert James Powles in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
Large amounts of precious resources are being spent on encouraging weight loss and healthy living. While the intention of trying to reinforce healthy living is laudable, the evidence is that our resources are being wasted on minimal benefits.
Society considers obesity a big threat that needs to be overcome, but being thin is seen as a panacea
The diseases caused by biological aging carry on incessantly taking the lives of 100 000 people every day. While age 87 is the most common age of death for people in the western world, little progress has occurred during the past decades.
A very interesting article about the state of funding for aging research and about Buck and ex Geron Mike West.
As I mentioned in last week’s letter, I traveled to San Francisco last Monday with my friend Patrick Cox, who writes our Transformational Technology Alert newsletter. We had dinner with Dr. Mike West of Biotime and then spent the next morning at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Pat and I decided we would jointly report on what we learned. He has already written his part, which was published last week. I am going to reproduce portions of that letter, which highlight the conversation with Brian Kennedy and his team at the Buck Institute, and then add my own thoughts about our conversation with Mike West the previous night.
(Note that I am excerpting Patrick’s paid letter, which includes comments on companies in his portfolio, rather than his free weekly Transformational Technologies Tech Digest service. We agreed that it was important to do so in this one case, given the huge significance of the research involved and the Buck Institute’s relationship to it.)
