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Jun 14, 2017

David Wood – We Should Prepare for the Future Now

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, life extension

LEAF caught up with Futurist David Wood at the recent International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid to talk about rejuvenation biotechnology.


We recently attended the International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid. LEAF director Elena Milova caught up with futurist David Wood at the summit to ask him about his work and his views on the development of rejuvenation biotechnology.

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Jun 12, 2017

Zoltan Istvan’s Schedule for FreedomFest 2017

Posted by in categories: life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism

I’ll be on a panel and also doing an author’s roundtable (The Transhumanist Wager) at FreedomFest in Las Vegas on July 21. It’s one of the largest gatherings of free minds in the world and this year is the 10th anniversary. If you’re there, please say hello! Others are speaking on life extension and AI. Here’s my speaker’s page:


Check out what Zoltan Istvan will be attending at FreedomFest 2017.

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Jun 12, 2017

Rejuvenation Biotechnology is now Mainstream Science

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, open access, science

The concept of repairing age-related damage to prevent diseases is now mainstream and openly talked about by most acadmics.


Earlier this year the second Scripps Florida Symposium was held and now this open access paper reports on the event. The title of of the event was ‘Advances in Therapeutic Approaches to Extend Healthspan’ and was held on January 22nd–25th, 2017 at The Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida.

It is once again very refreshing to see that the focus of the researchers here is now firmly on intervening on the various aging processes in order to prevent or treat age-related diseases. Less than a decade ago suggesting addressing the aging processes to treat disease as a preventative form of medicine would have jepordised the chances of funding, or even damaged a researcher’s career prospects. Now the majority of researchers are engaged in exploring the potential of increasing healthspan (the period of life spent free of age-related disease) with the aim of delaying or preventing age-related diseases.

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Jun 12, 2017

“How to Promote Longevity?” Live Panel

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

We teamed up the MMTP last week and did a special longevity live panel on Facebook with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Alexandra Stolzing, Dr. Oliver Medvedik and guests. Check it out.


We teamed up with the MMTP for their “How to Promote Longevity?” Live Panel. Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Alexandra Stolzing and Dr. Oliver Medvedik and guests discuss the latest research and progess in rejuvenation biotechnology.

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Jun 9, 2017

Immortality Our Future? Technology is our Fountain of Youth with Liz Parrish

Posted by in categories: futurism, life extension

Liz Parish joins the show to discuss her company’s efforts to reverse aging. Her aging trials have been famously conducted on her personally resulting in 20 year reversals on Telomere cell lengths, muscle mass, and other factors. We discuss the real possibility that humans could live to be over 1000 years old in our lifetimes. We also discuss the ethical issues that arise from the flood of new technologies that will soon be on the market.

You can see more about Parrish and her company at BioViva-Science.com

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Jun 9, 2017

Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro – Supporting the development of cryonics and rejuvenation biotechnology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cryonics, economics, education, engineering, life extension, lifeboat, singularity

Interview with Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro at the International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid.


During the recent International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit in Madrid, LEAF Board member Elena Milova had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro new fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) and long-term proponent of innovation technologies in many fields. Jose shared his vision on how public perception of rejuvenation technologies is changing over time and what are the main outcomes of the groundbreaking show he and his team managed to organize.

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Jun 8, 2017

Engineering Eden: The quest for eternal life

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, life extension, transhumanism

Dr. Kristin Kostick discusses the intersection of faith and science, and how there may be room for both in a transhuman future.

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Jun 8, 2017

Boosting Autophagy to treat heart disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, sustainability

Increasing autophagy in macrophages is a promising avenue of research aiming at heart disease and other age-related diseaeses.


Today we thought it was a good time to take a look at a new study that demonstrates that increasing autophagy is a good approach to slowing aging and could be the foundation for a variety of therapies to treat age-related diseases.

What is Autophagy?

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Jun 7, 2017

Friday June 9th 13:00 EST/18:00 UK “How to Promote Longevity?”

Posted by in category: life extension

Due technical issues the Longevity Panel with Aubrey de Grey, Alexandra Stolzing and Oliver Medvedik + guests will be airing on Friday 9th June at 13:00 on the MMTP Facebook page. Apologies for the delay.


We are teaming up with LEAF/Lifespan.io for our Longevity Panel with Dr. Alexandra Stolzing, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Oliver Medvedik and a number of other guests. We will be streaming the panel live to this page and we invite you to join us. It will also be made available later to view on Youtube.

This was originally scheduled for the 6th June but had to be rescheduled due to technical problems. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Jun 6, 2017

Living forever would be boring

Posted by in category: life extension

A brief article I wrote to rebut the misconception that longer—perhaps indefinite—lifespans would cause eternal boredom.


Alright. So, some people object you don’t want a very long lifespan because it would end up being boring. Even if a currently normal lifespan wasn’t enough, they argue, something like two hundred years would be more than enough to do anything worth doing. I wouldn’t bet my last cent on it.

Meet John and Jack, both born in the year 1400. John says he regrets he will not live past 1500 1490 1470 (that’s more like it). There are so many things he’ll miss out on centuries from now, he says.

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