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New class of drugs targets aging to help keep you healthy

Posted by Paul Gonçalves in biotech/medical, life extension

Sep 7
2017

The researchers, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, are calling for senolytic drugs to make the leap from animal research to human clinical trials. They outlined potential clinical trial scenarios in a paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on Monday.

“This is one of the most exciting fields in all of medicine or science at the moment,” said Dr. James Kirkland, director of the Kogod Center on Aging at the Mayo Clinic and lead author of the new paper.

Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano

Posted by Carse Peel in robotics/AI

Sep 7
2017

The AI genius, who has built out his virtual BabyX from a laughing, crying head, sees a symbiotic relationship between humans and machines.

Equifax says 143 million consumers potentially hacked

Posted by John Gallagher in cybercrime/malcode

Sep 7
2017

Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday a hack exposed the personal details of potentially 143 million U.S. consumers between mid-May and July.

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The company’s shares were down 5.4 percent in after-market trading.

The company said criminals had accessed details including names, social security numbers, and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers.

New Senolytic Drugs Reverse Aging — “Can Transform Medicine” Says Leading Researcher

Posted by Montie Adkins in biotech/medical, life extension

Sep 7
2017

Senolytic compounds hold promise to reverse aging in humans. Researcher James Kirkland publishes a list of senolytics in a review published yesterday. Two of the senolytics are currently in clinical trials. [Cover photo: Can Senolytic Drugs Reverse Aging? Credit: Getty Images.]

Imagine if you were able to reverse aging and bring your body back to its original health and vigor.

Researchers have already discovered a group of drugs called senolytics which perform this miraculous transformation in mice and are testing them in humans as we speak.

Hackers Gain Direct Access to US Power Grid Controls

Posted by John Gallagher in cybercrime/malcode

Sep 7
2017

Hackers who hit American utilities this summer had the power to cause blackouts, Symantec says. And yes, most signs point to Russia.

Hurricane Irma Leaves Scientists At ‘Loss For Words’

Posted by John Gallagher in climatology

Sep 7
2017

Storm makes landfall on U.S. Virigin Islands and Puerto Rico Wednesday as Florida Keys evacuation order takes effect.

Kalashnikov Unveils New Anti-Drone Weapon

Posted by John Gallagher in drones, terrorism

Sep 7
2017

Trouble with spying neighbors? Annoyed by teenage pranks? Concerned about terrorists? Kalashnikov has the answer — the new REX-1 Drone Killing Gun — “Looking at the market, I think the civilian version of our system could cost around $5,000…”

Michio Kaku on The Singularity

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in singularity | 2 Comments on Michio Kaku on The Singularity

Sep 7
2017

UCLA Team Genetically Manipulates Mitochondria to Extend Fruit Flies’ Lifespan

Posted by Paul Gonçalves in biotech/medical, genetics, life extension, neuroscience

Sep 7
2017

UCLA scientists working with middle-aged fruit flies say they were able to improve the insects’ health while markedly slowing down their aging process. The team thinks its technique could eventually help delay the onset of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and other age-related diseases in humans.

The researchers zeroed in on mitochondria, which often become damaged with age. When cells can’t eliminate the damaged mitochondria, they can become toxic and contribute to a wide range of age-related diseases, said David Walker, Ph.D., a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology, and the study’s senior author.

Dr. Walker and his colleagues found that as fruit flies reach middle age—about one month into their two-month lifespan—their mitochondria change from their original small, round shape.

Should We be Cautious about Envisioning Dystopias?

Posted by Johnny Boston in entertainment, ethics, existential risks, futurism, human trajectories, media & arts, philosophy, transhumanismTagged Dystopia, expectations, future, futurism, futurist, GPA, gray scott, innovation, tech, technology, tranhumanism, transhuman, utopia, vision

Sep 7
2017

How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?

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