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Jan 4, 2019
Becoming the First Transhuman: A Call For The Right Stuff
Posted by Mary Jain in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, genetics, life extension, neuroscience, space, transhumanism
Many scientists research the practical and immediate applications of bio molecular technology but it seems most fail to study our most important, and largest organ, our skin.
Who will officially be the first transhuman? Will it be you? Why wait decades? This article explains one approach to speeding up the process and also the challenge involved.
Defining the Object of the Goal:
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Jan 4, 2019
An Interview with Dr. Kris Verburgh, M.D
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI
At the Fourth Eurosymposium on Healthy Ageing, which was held in Brussels last November, Elena and I met Dr. Kris Verburgh, a medical doctor who is especially interested in biogerontology and the potential of this field of study to turn medicine on its head.
Dr. Verburgh is only about 33 years old and has already written several science books—one of which, written when he was only 16, made him the youngest science author in Europe. Another prominent interest of his is nutrition, which he believes is one of the best, if not the best, ways we currently have to slow down the march of aging and buy ourselves more time to live until the rejuvenation age; his latest book, The Longevity Code, is centered around this topic.
Dr. Verburgh is also a strong supporter of the idea that AI will play a more and more important role in research, leading the way to a not-too-far age of personalized medicine—this was one of the theses he touched upon during the panel in which he participated at EHA.
Jan 3, 2019
An Interview with Dr. Leonid Peshkin
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, robotics/AI
In this interview, Dr. Leonid Peshkin offers insights on aging, the pitfalls of excessive optimism, and the role of machine learning in studying age-related disease.
Determined but not complacent, grounded but hopeful, Dr. Leonid Peshkin is one of the scientists working on understanding aging so that it may one day be treated like we treat any other ailment.
As he revealed in an interview with the Boston Globe in mid-2018, the idea of having to lose oneself and one’s loved ones to aging never made any sense to him, and ever since he was a child, he has been preoccupied with aging and the fear that it might take away his father, who was almost 60 when Leon was 10 and, sadly, passed away in July 2018 at the age of 96.
Jan 3, 2019
Intriguing new study finds molecular target to slow aging in worm neurons
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: life extension, neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a molecule that may be a potential target in new treatments to slow aging (Credit: ktsdesign/Depositphotos)
Jan 3, 2019
OK Google, can I live forever? Secret Calico lab where tech giant’s aim is to conquer death
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Drive an hour north of Google’s headquarters up to Oyster Point, south San Francisco, and you will find the office of Calico Labs. The steel and glass building has none of the showmanship of its sister company, with its colourful, attention-grabbing Googleplex campus.
Its name is an acronym for “California Life Company” but its lifeless exterior makes it easy to imagine it being named after another Calico – an abandoned mining town further down the Pacific Coast. The company, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is now five years old, but its operations remain highly secretive.
Jan 2, 2019
Looking Back at 2018: A Year in Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Dear friends of healthy longevity, yet another year has gone by. Hold back the melancholy though, because in this day and age a passing year can be looked at as a year fewer to wait before rejuvenation biotechnologies are available, rather than a year taken from your healthy lifespan. Busy as we are with all the errands of daily life, it is easy to forget all that’s happened and the progress we’ve made in the field in one year. So while we wait for 2019, let’s take a look back at what 2018 has brought us.
Jan 2, 2019
Dr. Mikhail Shchepinov, CSO at Retrotope, Inc. USA will speak at the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference
Posted by Michael Greve in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension
“Mikhail first approached me nearly 15 years ago with the totally crazy idea that replacing hydrogen with deuterium in bioactive molecules so as to slow down undesirable chemical reactions. Well, if ever there were a proof that some of the craziest ideas are actually right, it is this one. In the years since, Misha and his company Retrotope have taken this concept from chemistry to yeast to mice and all the way to highly promising clinical results for several hitherto untreatable orphan diseases. I’m looking forward to hearing the latest!” says Aubrey de Grey.
https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-mikhail-s-shchepinov-t…aging-2019
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Jan 2, 2019
Anti-aging discovery reveals importance of immune system in clearing old cells
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
A compelling study from the Weizmann Institute of Science has revealed a new anti-aging strategy designed to help the immune system remove old and dysfunctional cells from the body. The initial animal experiments promisingly restored youthful characteristics in old mice, suggesting improving immune system surveillance may be an effective anti-aging therapy.
Jan 1, 2019
The immune system’s fountain of youth
Posted by Jacob Anderson in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Weizmann Institute of Science. (2018, December 31). The immune system’s fountain of youth: Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 1, 2019 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181231103951.htm