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Oct 14, 2017
Can We Reverse Stem Cell Decline and Rejuvenate Our Bodies? (Part 1)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Second article (#2 of 3) in three part stem cell series.
Summary: Stem cell decline leads to disease, gradual organ failure, and death. Learn what causes it and how researchers are trying to reverse stem cell decline. Part one of a two-part series.
Are stem cells the fountain of youth?
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Oct 14, 2017
Cellular Garb-aging Causes You To Age (Loss of proteostasis)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Cellular Garb-aging is the build-up of junk inside the cells that naturally occurs during aging. This article says why it happens.
To maintain protein homeostasis, and prevent garb-aging, the cell uses molecular chaperones, which help assemble and disassemble proteins. Chaperonins are a special class of chaperones that provide favorable conditions for the correct folding of other proteins, thus preventing aggregation. Chaperonins prevent the misfolding of proteins, which prevents conditions such as Mad Cow Disease. Sometimes, chaperonin proteins may also tag misfolded proteins to be degraded. When properly tagged, other processes can recognize the damaged or misfolded proteins and ‘take out the trash.’
Think of it as garb-aging removal.
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Oct 14, 2017
Why Inflammaging Causes Disease and Premature Aging
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Researchers have discovered why inflammaging occurs and are working on new treatments. Inflammaging is new medical term for “the chronic inflammation brought on by old age.”
Summary: Inflammaging is a low-grade inflammation brought on by old age. It accelerates the aging process and worsens diseases like cancer and heart disease. Because inflammaging accelerates aging, geroscientists are perfecting a few cures for the condition.
As we age, most of us tend to develop a low-grade chronic inflammation that causes disease and damage throughout the body. Because this low-level inflammation typically accompanies aging, scientists have nicknamed it ‘inflammaging.’ Most geroscientists implicate inflammaging as the cause of many of age-related diseases including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. These chronic diseases accelerate aging and shorten our lives.
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Oct 14, 2017
The new frontiers of indulgence
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, life extension
The number of people who believe—based on data, not faith—that humans can become (almost) immortal is growing, and includes the likes of scientists, billionaires, engineers and billionaire-engineers. For instance, investor Peter Thiel has donated to the anti-ageing cause, in addition to the $500,000 (around ₹3.2 crore) Palo Alto Longevity Prize for anyone who can radically extend the life of a mammal. Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, too has donated $335 million to scientists studying ageing before he decided to redirect his foundation’s grants toward eliminating polio in 2013.
When, in the future, expensive baubles cease to hold the same novelty they do today, redefined concepts of luxury are what the super-rich can pick from.
Oct 13, 2017
Steve Hill — Healthy aging what does it even mean?
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
Healthy aging what does it even mean? bigsmile
#CrowdfundTheCure for #aging at www.lifespan.io
Oct 12, 2017
Aubrey de Grey — Our Moral Obligation to Cure Aging
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, ethics, life extension
Recorded Oct 4th, 2017
Link to the interview, goo.gl/8rQ6YS
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Oct 12, 2017
Hallmarks of Aging: Genomic Instability
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
We are doing a series of articles that discuss the Hallmarks of Aging. Published in 2013, this paper is highly regarded in academia and is one of the most cited papers in biology, with an average of being cited once every two days. The paper divides aging into distinct categories (“hallmarks”) of damage to explain how the aging process works and how it causes age-related diseases[1].
Today, we will be looking at one of the primary hallmarks, genomic instability.
Oct 11, 2017
Immortality is the new IT: Tech moguls chase longevity
Posted by Derick Lee in category: life extension
They made their money by harnessing tech to transform life. Now, they want to use their wealth to extend the limits of life. Longevity is the new frontier for these Silicon Valley barons and they hope to again do what they do best, transform life as we know it and make a killing off it.
Oct 10, 2017
Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D.: Rejuvenation biotechnology: Why Age May Soon Not Mean Aging
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Recorded Oct 4th, 2017
Link to the interview, goo.gl/8rQ6YS