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Apr 22, 2017

Noah’s Ark 2.0

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For two decades, the architect Stephen Valentine has been designing, planning and developing — though not yet building — a structure quite unlike anything built before. He calls the building Timeship and describes it as a repository for the technologies and people working to stretch the boundaries of being human, a Silicon Valley for life-extension research.


It’s the first take on an architecture of immortality, but is cryogenics hub Timeship a grand delusion or looming reality?

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Apr 21, 2017

Daisy Robinton — The Fight Against Aging

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, genetics, life extension, neuroscience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkxgRIgo2dA

Primarily talking about CRISPR.


Daisy Robinton explores bioengineering and its potential to end ageing.

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Apr 20, 2017

Is Beet Juice the Secret to Staying Young?

Posted by in categories: food, life extension, neuroscience

Beets are a common sweetening ingredient in the juices you’ll find at most health food stores, but a recent study found another reason to drink the bright red juice: It has anti-aging benefits.

Researchers at Wake Forest University knew that exercise has positive anti-aging effects on the brain, and were looking for ways to increase those benefits.

“What we showed in this brief training study of hypertensive older adults was that, as compared to exercise alone, adding a beet root juice supplement to exercise resulted in brain connectivity that closely resembles what you see in younger adults,” W. Jack Rejeski, co-author of the study, told EurekAlert.

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Apr 20, 2017

Join Us: Become a Lifespan Hero!

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Calling all Longevity Superheroes!

We have launched our Lifespan Heroes campaign to raise funds for LEAF so we can continue delivering quality content, exclusive interviews, scientific commentaries, advocacy and more.

We have made amazing progress over the last two years thanks to our volunteers, but now we need some help from our heroes — the longevity community.

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Apr 19, 2017

Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov – A.I. Versus Aging

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI

AI vs Aging. Who will win this war?

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Apr 18, 2017

Calling all the Heroes!

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Calling all the Longevity Superheroes, science needs you! We are proud to launch our brand new campaign and this time there is a twist.

We have launched our Lifespan Heroes campaign to raise funds for LEAF so we can continue delivering quality content, exclusive interviews, scientific commentaries, advocacy and more. We have done an amazing job over the last two years with our volunteers but now we need some help from our heroes — the longevity community.


Spring is the best time to celebrate life and remember all the good things we have achieved to improve and protect human life. One of the organizations which contributed the most to the development of healthcare systems around the globe is the World Health Organization founded by the United Nations. WHO’s Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day.

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Apr 18, 2017

There are more urgent issues

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Haven’t we all heard it a billion times? ‘There are other priorities’ more urgent than defeating ageing. This article attempts to rebut that objection.


Somebody think of the children!!!

—Every social justice warrior ever

Sigh.

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Apr 17, 2017

Removing Aging Cells With a New Class of Senolytic Drug

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

A short summary of the recent senescent cell removal therapy being developed by a team in the Netherlands.


A quick summary of the new FOXO4 senescent cell removal therapy by Dr. Oliver Medvedik from LEAF.

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Apr 15, 2017

Who wants to live forever? Transhumanism’s vision of the future for wealthy white males

Posted by in categories: life extension, transhumanism

It’s tricky to bring transhumanism into sharp focus. As with, say, feminism, the meaning of the word varies hugely between individuals who identify with it, and the level of commitment may vary between an occasional affirmation or a crusading passion. Like feminism, transhumanism has many factions, often at war with one another, or with the broader culture; as with feminism, a lot of people identify as transhumanist without spending much time learning what those who coined the term were actually on about. Transhumanism broadly considers technology as an emancipatory route to individual and/or collective transcendence over the ‘limitations’ of the human condition.

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Apr 13, 2017

New pill considered key in the fight against ageing

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

This contains information that is not in other articles on the same topic of David Sinclair:

“The results certainly sound encouraging. Before he started taking a 500mg NMN pill every morning, 47-year-old Professor Sinclair had his blood tested and was told his body had a biological age of 58.

After consuming NMN for three months, he was tested again and his biological age was 32.”

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