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May 28, 2019

Hosted by Dr. Oliver Medvedik

Posted by in category: innovation

Hosted by Dr. Oliver Medvedik, the May edition of Journal Club will focus on the recent publication by the Spiegel Lab at Yale University where two forms of advanced glycation end products were successfully cleaved. We already discussed this important breakthrough in our article – Reversal of Two Advanced Glycation End Products Achieved. Now we will be taking a deeper look at the data during the journal club.

Link to Paper:

https://sci-hub.tw/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/1.…201900158

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May 28, 2019

Developing a Biotechnology Startup in the Rejuvenation Field

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Alongside our Ending Age-related Diseases 2019 annual conference, we are proud to announce the launch of a special pre-conference biotech workshop led by Dr. Kelsey Moody, CEO of Ichor Therapeutics, a successful and rapidly growing rejuvenation biotechnology company.

This joint event between the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation and Ichor Therapeutics is an essential workshop where you will learn about the fundamentals of launching and growing a successful biotechnology company with an emphasis on the nuances specific to the emerging rejuvenation biotechnology industry.

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May 28, 2019

Medical Benefits of Snake Venom

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Snake venom has some amazing medical applications!

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May 28, 2019

New Pacemaker Harvests Energy from the Heart

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A device that converts the heart’s mechanical energy into electrical energy has been successfully tested in pigs.

  • By Harini Barath on May 28, 2019

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May 28, 2019

Provocative study shows how the herpes virus can speed up the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

An intriguing new study from researchers at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet has described a mechanism by which virus particles can interact with proteins in biological fluids and become more infectious, while also accelerating the formation of plaques often associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

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May 28, 2019

Albino panda cub is the cutest genetic rarity you’ll see today

Posted by in category: genetics

Nothing has ever looked so close to an IRL Pokémon.

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May 28, 2019

Meet the world’s first cable-free elevator—it can zoom horizontally or vertically

Posted by in category: futurism

Willy Wonka’s preferred mode of transport has become a reality. (from 2017)


It could help change the way that buildings are designed, as well as getting you to your floor faster.

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May 28, 2019

Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, food, transhumanism

It’s comforting to think of the body as a machine we can trick out. It helps us ignore the strange fleshy aches that come with having a meat cage. It makes a fickle system—one we truly don’t understand—feel conquerable. To admit that the body (and mind that sits within it) might be far more complex than our most delicate, intricate inventions endangers all kinds of things: the medical industrial complex, the wellness industry, countless startups. But it might also open up new doors for better relationships with our bodies too: Disability scholars have long argued that the way we see bodies as “fixable” ultimately serves to further marginalize people who will never have the “standard operating system,” no matter how many times their parts are replaced or tinkered with.


Tech gurus are obsessed with treating bodies like machines—something a 30-year-old cartoon about a tricked-out detective suggests won’t work.

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May 28, 2019

BioViva Journey — Bioinformatics with Liz Parrish

Posted by in category: life extension

Sounds like a more extensive 23andMe, dedicated to anti-ageing.

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May 28, 2019

Stay on top ofthe latestengineering news

Posted by in categories: engineering, robotics/AI

Top artificial intelligence (AI) expert and founder and CEO of Fountech.ai Nikolas Kairinos said in a Daily Star interview that within 20 years we could have implants put into our heads that will allow us to learn everything. “You won’t need to memorize anything,” said the specialist to the Daily Star.

RELATED: NEURALINK: HOW THE HUMAN BRAIN WILL DOWNLOAD DIRECTLY FROM A COMPUTER

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