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Feb 14, 2018
Anti-Aging Scientists Hope to Reduce Chronic Diseases
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Summary: Recent scientific advances in anti-aging science are bringing the dream of the fountain of youth closer to reality. More than just extending our lifespans, the field hopes to significantly reduce the chronic diseases of aging, such as cancer, heart disease, and dementia. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
A fountain of youth has been the dream of humanity throughout history.
Recent scientific advances are bringing that dream closer to reality.
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Feb 14, 2018
Secrets of these 200-year-old whales who avoid cancer
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Summary: Why the bowhead whale lives 200 years and rarely gets cancer. This article is part 2 of a 3-part series, covering the role of telomere length in cancer and part of a new extensive study. Part 1 on the accuracy of telomere length is here, Part 3 on the role of telomere length in chronic diseases is here. [This article first appeared under the title ‘Top Journal Discovers Key to These 200-Year-Old Whales Who Avoid Cancer’ on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
Related: A brief overview of why whales don’t get cancer is in this companion video.
In a comprehensive study published a little more than a week ago in a highly respected journal of the Royal Society of the UK, authors Abraham Aviv and Jerry W. Shay (see author bios here) report on the role of telomere length. In this segment, the authors describe the role of telomere length in protecting us from cancer and explain why whales have low rates of cancer, despite large cell counts, long lives, and relatively short telomeres.
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Feb 14, 2018
Can the blood of teens rejuvenate our bodies? This new trial aims to find out
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience
Summary: A recently announced parabiosis trial in humans – the practice of transfusing young blood to old – may have profound implications for treating the chronic diseases of old age, including metabolic changes, frailty, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other forms of dementia. However, some geroscientists say that variations of the procedure could cause severe side effects. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
The idea that youthful blood might rejuvenate our aging bodies has lingered in the popular imagination for centuries, fueled by recent experiments in which these transfusions revitalized aging mice.
Last week, Bill Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation (LEF) in partnership with the Young Blood Institute (YBI), announced a bold new human trial of the rejuvenating effects of the young blood / old blood swap, saying.
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Feb 14, 2018
Revolutionary Technologies to Beat Aging in Our Lifetimes
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Five technologies in development – including senolytic drugs, rapamycin, stem cell therapy, NAD supplementation and gene therapy – could dramatically slow down aging in the next few years. This report updates the latest developments in these promising and potentially lifespan-extending treatments. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]
The longevity science field has made enormous progress in recent years, and human trials of anti-aging compounds have already started, with more to begin soon. The lifespan-extension research field is gaining the attention of mainstream medicine.
The specialists who populate the field, called geroscientists, are developing several technologies that might benefit people who are alive today and aim to bring them to the clinic. These lifespan-extending technologies include stem cell therapy, rapamycin, gene therapy, senolytic drugs, and NAD supplementation.
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Feb 14, 2018
This Vending Machine Gives Free Food To The Homeless
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: food
Feb 14, 2018
World’s Largest Plane Could Give Elon Musk The Space Race He’s Craving
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space, sustainability, transportation
Image: Stratolaunch Billionaires are taking to space the way wistful young men take to the sea in 19th Century novels. Last week, Elon Musk launched his Tesla Roadster at the astroid belt using the world’s most powerful rocket currently in operation. Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen also has a big plan (and a big plane) for going to space. In December of last year, the Stratolaunch performed its first taxi at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, CA. While that doesn’t seem terribly exciting, it’s the first step to getting the Stratolaunch, the world’s largest plane eve…
Feb 14, 2018
TVs are about to get bigger. Way bigger
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: electronics
Feb 14, 2018
Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can’t
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, particle physics
Engineers at Dartmouth College have developed a computer chip that can detect a single particle of light. Cameras with the chip would have visual abilities even a superhero would envy.
Feb 14, 2018
Future of Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil)
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in categories: engineering, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
MIT 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence class takes an engineering approach to exploring possible research paths toward building human-level intelligence. The lectures introduce our current understanding of computational intelligence and ways in which strong AI could possibly be achieved, with insights from deep learning, reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, robotics, cognitive modeling, psychology, and more.