Archive for the ‘life extension’ category: Page 376
Jun 19, 2019
Biotech Investing in Longevity Panel 2: Aubrey de Grey, Gordon Lithgow, Mike West
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Collaborate toward positive futures: https://www.existentialhope.com/
Jun 19, 2019
Eating Cheese Could Actually Make You Live Longer, Science Says
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, science
© Provided by Bauer Media Pty Ltd A study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that eating cheese can lead to a longer lifespan.
Every now and again, a study is released that makes our heart skip a beat.
Recently, research published in the journal Nature Medicine found that eating cheese can lead to a longer lifespan (and it wasn’t even satire!).
Jun 19, 2019
Podcast Special Edition Mini-Cast: Preview of The 2019 Ending-Age Related Diseases Conference
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
“As far as I’m concerned, ageing is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey.
Jun 19, 2019
Michio Kaku: Genetic and digital immortality are within reach
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: genetics, life extension
Jun 18, 2019
Interview with Prof. Morgan Levine
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biological, genetics, life extension
Tam Hunt interviews Prof. Morgan Levine about her work with epigenetics and aging.
One of the biggest breakthroughs in biology in the last few decades has been the discovery of epigenetics. Rather than changing the genes themselves, epigenetics change how genes are expressed, allowing our cells to differentiate between their various types.
However, the epigenetics of our cells change over time. There is some debate over how much epigenetic alterations are a cause or a consequence of other age-related damage, but they are one of the primary hallmarks of aging.
Jun 18, 2019
The Future of Pensions – Article
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, geopolitics, life extension, policy, transhumanism
Editor’s Note: The U.S. Transhumanist Party features this article by Nicola Bagalà and Michael Nuschke of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), originally published on the LEAF site on May 15th, 2019. The article brings attention to and responds to concerns related to the impacts of increased longevity on pension systems, a possible result of our mission of ending age-related diseases, which the U.S. Transhumanist Party supports as part of our policy goals.
~ Brent Reitze, Director of Publication, United States Transhumanist Party, June 15th, 2019
If you work in social security, it’s possible that your nightmares are full of undying elderly people who keep knocking on your door for pensions that you have no way of paying out. Tossing and turning in your bed, you beg for mercy, explaining that there’s just too many old people who need pensions and not enough young people who could cover for it with their contributions; the money’s just not there to sustain a social security system that, when it was conceived in the mid-1930s, didn’t expect that many people would ever make it into their 80s and 90s. Your oneiric persecutors won’t listen: they gave the country the best years of their lives, and now it’s time for the country to pay them their due.
Jun 18, 2019
UNITY Biotechnology Reports Promising Topline Data from Phase 1 First-in-human Study of UBX0101 in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
It’s a start. So far so good, senolytics.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UNITY Biotechnology, Inc. (UNITY) [NASDAQ: UBX], a biotechnology company developing therapeutics to extend healthspan by slowing, halting or reversing diseases of aging, today announced promising results from its first-in-human Phase 1 study of UBX0101 in patients with moderate to severe osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The study demonstrated that UBX0101 was safe and well-tolerated. Improvement in several clinical measures, including pain, function, as well as modulation of certain senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors and disease-related biomarkers was observed after a single dose of UBX0101.
Jun 17, 2019
Scientists Have Found Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: life extension, particle physics, quantum physics, space
Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don’t always follow the rules. Now, scientists have found that quasiparticles in quantum systems could be effectively immortal.
That doesn’t mean they don’t decay, which is reassuring. But once these quasiparticles have decayed, they are able to reorganise themselves back into existence, possibly ad infinitum.
This seemingly flies right in the face of the second law of thermodynamics, which asserts that entropy in an isolated system can only move in an increasing direction: things can only break down, not build back up again.
Jun 17, 2019
Anti-aging — Telomerase
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Aging is one of the world’s greatest health problems. And subsequently, is the cause of most fatal diseases. Age-related processes are inevitable and cause a range of diseases. It is much more efficient and effective to tackle the aging itself rather than each disease it causes.
At the end of every chromosome are telomere caps which degrade as we age. This causes a number of issues. For example: