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Aug 31, 2016
The Golden Age
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: government, life extension, singularity, space
I HIGHLY recommend reading this novel, as well as it sequels! It’s a beautiful, smart, and occasionally frightening exploration of what our civilization will look like post singularity, what WE will look like as posthumans, and where we might go from there.
The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF’s golden age writers.
The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion.
Aug 31, 2016
Elena Milova speaking in support of OncoSENS crowdfunding campaign
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4U6qvNt81E&feature=youtu.be
The MMTP has recorded this film in support of SENS Research and their quest to find solutions to ALT cancer.
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Aug 31, 2016
Aubrey de Grey and Panel — Prolonging Lifespan
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chIH_ozLkI
Inconvenient truths about aging, senescent cells and more.
Filmed August 16th 2016.
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Aug 30, 2016
Could an algorithm help to save people’s eyesight? Google thinks so
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, information science, life extension, robotics/AI
Google’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind is exploring whether its technology could be used to identify early signs of eye diseases that ophthalmologists might not spot.
DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014, has struck an agreement with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London that gives it access to about a million anonymous retinal scans, which it will feed into its artificial intelligence software.
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Aug 29, 2016
Safer Gene Editing Without Cleaving DNA
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
It’s an add-on for CRISPR.
Researchers have created a new genome editing technique called Target-AID, which induces point mutations instead of cutting DNA
Gene editing technology has fantastic potential, but there are remaining issues and questions over safety and specificity. The major contender is currently CRISPR-Cas9, but this induces a double stranded break in DNA which is a slightly riskier approach — particularly if it cuts in other locations too that you don’t want it to. Research teams across the world are both optimising and customising the CRISPR system; creating more accurate versions or versions that regulate gene expression as opposed to editing it. One such team has now built an add-on to CRISPR, Target-AID.
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Aug 28, 2016
Uncovering the genetic basis of ALT (Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres) — Harold Silva
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
Dr Haroldo Silva from SENS talks about ALT cancer in this short film.
As normal cells divide, the ends of their chromosomes (telomeres) progressively shorten until eventually the cells reach senescence or undergo apoptosis. Cancers, which disproportionally kill more individuals in the 65 years or above age group, often overcome this built-in replication limit by expressing the enzyme telomerase.
Aug 28, 2016
Menopause reversed as scientists successfully ‘rejuvenate women’s ovaries’
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Time people rethought outdated ideas about biology and accepted that development and aging are not one way processess and they are amenable to intervention.
Scientists have announced they can now reverse the menopause in what is thought to be a major scientific breakthrough.
Trials claim to have ‘rejuvenated’ women’s ovaries using a blood treatment normally used to help wounds heal faster and have reversed menstrual cessation in multiple women, including 40-year-old woman who underwent the menopause five years ago.
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Aug 27, 2016
Aubrey de Grey — Pushing back Death
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, finance, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKsTWM373xs
Even insurance companies are taking longevity seriously now!
Aug 26, 2016
Anti-aging effects (in mice) of a dietary supplement called alpha lipoic acid
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found that the dietary supplement alpha lipoic acid (ALA) can stimulate telomerase, the enzyme that lengthens telomeres, with positive effects in a mouse model of atherosclerosis.
In human cells, shortened telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, are a sign of aging and also contribute to aging.
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