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May 9, 2017
The Ins and Outs of Cellular Senescence: Longevity Conference Paris
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
On May 16-19th a longevity research conference is being held in Paris.
On May 16-19th renowned researchers and advocates of healthy life extension will gather in Paris to discuss recent breakthroughs in regenerative medicine. The conference organized by the International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) “The Ins and Outs of Cellular Senescence: Understanding the Biology to Foster Healthy Aging and Suppression of Disease” will take place in the famous Pasteur Institute in Paris. In addition to the main conference, an open public event will be held on the afternoon of May, 19th: an international panel of experts in aging research under the lead of Eric Gilson (Ircan research institute on cancer and aging in Nice) will reveal what we know about biological aging today and what medicine can do to prevent age-related diseases.
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May 8, 2017
Startup Promises Immortality Through AI, Nanotechnology, and Cloning
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI
You can see how deep-rooted is the wish of some to just ignore the problem of ageing when they say that rejuvenation won’t happen in time for them, and that there’s thus no reason they should concern themselves with the whole issue. This article on rebuts this meta-objection and discusses its origins.
People’s last line of defence to keep ignoring the problem of ageing and rejuvenation is often the meta-objection ‘it won’t happen in my lifetime’. Let’s have a look at what’s wrong with this reasoning, and why some people think this way.
#aging #crowdfundthecure
May 7, 2017
We are currently organizing our Longevity Panel with Alexandra Stolzing, Aubrey de Grey and a number of other guests
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
The major mouse testing pogram is organizing a special 1.5 hour long longevity panel with Dr. Alexandra Stolzing, Dr. Aubrey de Grey and other guests in early June. This was one of the rewards for their campaign on Lifespan.io last year.
They are asking the community to suggest questions to ask Dr. Stolzing and Dr. de Grey so head on over there if you would like to ask them something and maybe it will make the show. The show will be broadcast live on Facebook and the dates will be announced shortly.
We hope to lifestream the science panel to facebook in June and will confirm the time and date shortly.
From 2014, a docu focusing on Aubrey and Bill Andrews.
Live forever… or die trying
May 5, 2017
Bottlenecks to the Development of Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
What are the bottlenecks in developing a rejuvenation biotechnology industry? LEAF takes a look at some of the main problems we are facing in creating that industry.
One of the most frequent questions we get from the general public is when will rejuvenation therapies arrive? Whilst young people can wait for a few more decades, those in middle age are much more concerned. According to statistics, new drug development takes 17 years on average, but the countdown only begins at the moment when the underlying mechanisms are investigated well enough – which cannot be said about the mechanisms of aging.
We have made great progress in understanding aging in the last decade thanks to the march of technology. One solution to an aging process is entering human clinical trials this year: a therapy to remove aged damaged cells to promote tissue repair and reduce chronic inflammation. This is of course fantastic news but progress is still too slow.
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May 5, 2017
Scientists are waging a war against human aging. But what happens next?
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biological, life extension, physics
Aubrey de Grey in this new interview with Vox.
We all grow old. We all die.
For Aubrey de Grey, a biogerontologist and chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation, accepting these truths is, well, not good enough. He decided in his late twenties (he’s currently 54) that he “wanted to make a difference to humanity” and that battling age was the best way to do it. His life’s work is now a struggle against physics and biology, the twin collaborators in bodily decay.
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May 4, 2017
Israel’s oldest newspaper Haaretz (in #Hebrew) recently translated and published The New York Times Magazine feature story on my radical science and #transhumanism work in their own Sunday magazine
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: life extension, science, transhumanism
Israel’s oldest newspaper Haaretz (in #Hebrew) recently translated and published The New York Times Magazine feature story on my radical science and #transhumanism work in their own Sunday magazine. I can’t find the link in Hebrew yet, but here’s the fun 2-page spread of me atop my #ImmortalityBus. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/magazine/600-miles-in-a-c…tself.html
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May 3, 2017
Treating Osteoarthritis
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
New research in multiple mouse types and human cell lines shows senolytics helps mitigate osteoarthritis.
The removal of senescent cells has shown further potential for the treatment of osteoarthritis in this recent publication where the researchers reduce the impact of post injury osteoarthritis by clearing senescent cells[1]. As we have discussed many times in our publications, senescent cells are a key player in the aging process, if you are new to the subject and want to know what senescent cells are here is a quick primer.
What are senescent cells?
