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Jan 3, 2018
China’s First Emperor Ordered Official Search for Immortality Elixir
Posted by Derick Lee in category: life extension
The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, wanted to live forever.
Newly discovered documents reveal that 2,200 years ago, he even put out an executive order to search for a potion that would give him eternal life, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
Ancient texts reveal that China’s first emperor ordered an official search for the secret of eternal life.
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Jan 2, 2018
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 2018 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: business, food, sex, sustainability
Has anyone used the app?
The Department of Labor has released an innovative, business-focused mobile app that supports private-sector efforts to eradicate forced labor from global supply chains.
During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we recommit ourselves to eradicating the evil of enslavement. Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation. It has no place in our world. This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality. We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.
Jan 2, 2018
Spider’s web inspires removable implant that may control type 1 diabetes
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in categories: biotech/medical, materials
For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell University-led research team has developed a device that could revolutionize management of the disease.
In Type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing pancreatic cell clusters (islets) are destroyed by the body’s immune system. The research group, led by assistant professor Minglin Ma from the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, has devised an ingenious method for implanting hundreds of thousands of islet cells into a patient. They are protected by a thin hydrogel coating and, more importantly, the coated cells are attached to a polymer thread and can be removed or replaced easily when they have outlived their usefulness.
Transplantation of stem cell-derived, insulin-producing islet cells is an alternative to insulin therapy, but that requires long-term immunosuppressive drug administration. One well-researched approach to avoid the immune system’s response is to coat and protect the cells in tiny hydrogel capsules, hundreds of microns in diameter. However, these capsules cannot be taken out of the body easily, since they’re not connected to each other, and there are hundreds of thousands of them.
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Jan 2, 2018
Scientists Develop Fossil-Fuel-Based Technology That Consumes Carbon Dioxide
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in category: energy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LHGVBTDDnKU
Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing technologies that have the potential to economically convert fossil fuels and biomass into useful products including electricity without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
In the first of two papers published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the engineers report that they’ve devised a process that transforms shale gas into products such as methanol and gasoline—all while consuming carbon dioxide. This process can also be applied to coal and biomass to produce useful products.
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Jan 2, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — The TRT Revolution Podcast
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, business, cosmology, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, transhumanism
Jan 2, 2018
A fossil fuel technology that doesn’t pollute
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: energy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LHGVBTDDnKU
Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing technologies that have the potential to economically convert fossil fuels and biomass into useful products including electricity without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
In the first of two papers published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the engineers report that they’ve devised a process that transforms shale gas into products such as methanol and gasoline—all while consuming carbon dioxide. This process can also be applied to coal and biomass to produce useful products.
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Jan 2, 2018
Why does anyone attribute value to Bitcoin?
Posted by Philip Raymond in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, economics, internet
Oh, Cheez…We’re back to this question, again!
As a Bitcoin columnist, I get this question a lot. Today, an answer was requested at Quora.com, where I am the lead contributor on cryptocurrencies:
“Clearly, some people value Bitcoin. But How can
this be? There is nothing there to give it value!”
Many individuals, like the one who asked this question, suspect that Bitcoin was pulled out of thin air—and that it is not backed by gold, a government, or an authoritative redemption guaranty. After all, it is just open source code. What stops me from creating an ElleryCoin using the same code?!
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Jan 2, 2018
Reviewing the Lifespan Extension Discoveries of 2017
Posted by Brady Hartman in category: life extension
A review of the discoveries in lifespan extension reported in 2017.
Summary: a review of the discoveries in lifespan extension reported in 2017. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. The article has been updated, and the title has been changed.]
Another year is over. Here’s a look back at the discoveries and articles covering lifespan extension science in 2017.
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Jan 2, 2018
We Need Breakthrough Biomarkers of Aging to Revolutionize Lifespan Extension
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Biomarkers of aging would be a breakthrough that slashes the time and cost it currently takes to develop lifespan-extension drugs. [Author: Brady Hartman. This article first appeared on the LongevityFacts.com website. ]
Biomarkers of aging would revolutionize the development of lifespan-extension drugs, helping to bring them out of the laboratory and into the clinic in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost. The first scientist to come up with an effective biomarker of aging would produce a true breakthrough for the field of life extension.
Imagine that geroscientists have just developed a miraculous compound called Regulus that promises to extend human lifespans by a significant amount. Unfortunately, the researchers would not have an easy time testing Regulus because humans live a long time. Testing Regulus in mice, would help, but researchers would still have to test the drug’s lifespan-extending effects in humans. Before anti-aging physicians could prescribe Regulus, it would need to undergo an expensive and lengthy clinical trial.
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