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Looking Back at 2018: A Year in Rejuvenation Biotechnology

Posted by Steve Hill in biotech/medical, life extension

Jan 2
2019

Dear friends of healthy longevity, yet another year has gone by. Hold back the melancholy though, because in this day and age a passing year can be looked at as a year fewer to wait before rejuvenation biotechnologies are available, rather than a year taken from your healthy lifespan. Busy as we are with all the errands of daily life, it is easy to forget all that’s happened and the progress we’ve made in the field in one year. So while we wait for 2019, let’s take a look back at what 2018 has brought us.

A group of Mark Zuckerberg-funded researchers is testing implantable brain devices as part of a $5 billion quest to end disease

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in biotech/medical, neuroscience

Jan 2
2019

Chan-Zuckerberg researchers implanted a wireless brain device called the “Wand” in a primate. Their first study was published on New Year’s Eve.

What a Tiny Electron Reveals About the Structure of the Universe

Posted by Genevieve Klien in particle physics

Jan 2
2019

What shape is an electron? The answer, believe it or not, has implications for our understanding of the entire universe, and could reveal whether there are mysterious particles still to be discovered.

Is it ethical to engineer HIV-proof babies?

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, genetics

Jan 2
2019

A Chinese scientist has claimed to use CRISPR to genetically engineer two babies. An expert explains what this means and the ethical implications.

Second scientific balloon launches from Antarctica

Posted by Genevieve Klien in cosmology

Jan 2
2019

Washington University in St. Louis announced that its X-Calibur instrument, a telescope that measures the polarization of X-rays arriving from distant neutron stars, black holes and other exotic celestial bodies, launched today from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know

Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Jan 2
2019

By how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. ~ Dr. Bruce Lipton.

Scientists have combined a house plant with a rabbit gene. This is why

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, habitats, sustainability

Jan 2
2019

Scientists at the University of Washington (UW) may have found an unexpected way to tackle persistent indoor air pollution: a common houseplant modified with rabbit DNA.

Researchers wanted to find a way to remove the toxic compounds chloroform and benzene from the home, a UW press release explained. Chloroform enters the air through chlorinated water and benzene comes from gasoline and enters the home through showers, the boiling of hot water and fumes from cars or other vehicles stored in garages attached to the home. Both have been linked to cancer, but not much has been done to try and remove them. Until now.

“People haven’t really been talking about these hazardous organic compounds in homes, and I think that’s because we couldn’t do anything about them,” senior study author and UW civil and environmental engineering department research professor Stuart Strand said in the release. “Now we’ve engineered houseplants to remove these pollutants for us.”

Dr. Mikhail Shchepinov, CSO at Retrotope, Inc. USA will speak at the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference

Posted by Michael Greve in biotech/medical, chemistry, life extension

Jan 2
2019

“Mikhail first approached me nearly 15 years ago with the totally crazy idea that replacing hydrogen with deuterium in bioactive molecules so as to slow down undesirable chemical reactions. Well, if ever there were a proof that some of the craziest ideas are actually right, it is this one. In the years since, Misha and his company Retrotope have taken this concept from chemistry to yeast to mice and all the way to highly promising clinical results for several hitherto untreatable orphan diseases. I’m looking forward to hearing the latest!” says Aubrey de Grey.

https://www.undoing-aging.org/news/dr-mikhail-s-shchepinov-t…aging-2019

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