Live forever!
From Alphavilles debut album Forever Young (1984)
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Oct 8, 2019
Will we Live Forever? : Longevity Dividend, Aging Escape Velocity, And The Breakeven Point
Posted by Tanvir Ahmed in category: life extension
Oct 8, 2019
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Oct 8, 2019
Germ transplant helps women with tough-to-treat vaginal infections
Posted by Paul Battista in category: biotech/medical
Bacterial vaginosis is a common infection in women that’s usually easily treated with antibiotics. But for those who develop recurrent infections, treatment options have been limited.
Now, Israeli researchers report they were able to put recurrent infections into remission in four out of five women who received a “vaginal microbiome transplant.” The transplant consisted of healthy bacteria collected from the vaginal fluid of donors without the condition, the researchers explained.
“Bacterial vaginosis, while not life-risking, is an exceedingly common female disorder that bears a severe toll on women’s lives, including severe discomfort, reduced self-esteem, problems in intimate relationships, social segregation and a variety of risks of developing infectious gynecological and obstetric complications,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Eran Elinav.
Oct 8, 2019
Australia advances off earth operations to mine the moon
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Oct 8, 2019
Astronauts Just Grew Meat in Space for the First Time
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, space
Oct 8, 2019
Here’s How We Could Feed a Million People on Mars
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: food, space, sustainability
If we want to colonize Mars, we’re going to need to figure out a way to feed ourselves there, and continuously sending food to the Red Planet isn’t a sustainable plan.
But now, a team of researchers thinks it’s figured out a way to produce enough food on Mars to feed a million people — and they say their plan to make Martian colonists self-sufficient would take just a hundred years to implement.
Oct 8, 2019
Elon Musk: Teslas Will Soon Make “Fart” and “Goat” Noises
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: Elon Musk, humor, transportation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a weak spot for potty humor.
First, the carmaker introduced a “fart app” for its electric vehicles, which generates rude bathroom sounds.
Now, Musk says Teslas will soon be getting “customized horn and movement sounds,”— including “goats” and “farts,” according to a emoji-laden Sunday tweet.
Oct 8, 2019
Expert: “Zombie Deer Disease” May Have Already Spread to Humans
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: biotech/medical
Oct 8, 2019
A DNA Switch for Whole-body Regeneration
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
When it comes to regeneration, some animals are capable of amazing feats — if you cut the leg off a salamander, it will grow back. When threatened, some geckos drop their tails as a distraction, and regrow them later.
Other animals take the process even further. Planarian worms, jellyfish, and sea anemones can actually regenerate their entire bodies after being cut in half.
Led by Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Mansi Srivastava, a team of researchers is shedding new light on how animals pull off the feat, and uncovered a number of DNA switches that appear to control genes for whole-body regeneration. The study is described in a March 15 paper in Science.
