• A Transcript of "Elixir of Life"

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:00:28
    An Australian program featuring researchers Aubrey de Grey and David Sinclair: "It feels like science fiction, but it's actually true. And we're really at the cutting edge, it's a really exciting time in the field right now. ... There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance. ......

  • Watch This: Earth’s Oceans Wriggling With Durable, Beautiful Currents | 80beats

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:10:22
    : , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Death Star” of Medical Technology : Proton-Beam Therapy Shows All the Problems” in US Healthcare New Algorithm Captures What Pleases the Human Ear—and May Replace Human Instrument Tuners Watch This : Earth’s Oceans Wriggling With Durable , Beautiful Currents For a strangely hypnotic minute and a half , check out this visualization of the Earth’s ocean currents . It flies you across the globe–past small blue swirls and over the bright lines of the Gulf Stream . More ocean current photos and videos , all based on data from NASA’s  ECCO2 project , are available to watch and

  • Excess Body Fat Damages the Mind

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:09:58
    There is plenty of evidence to show that being overweight for any great length of time in life causes harm, either fairly directly by boosting levels of chronic inflammation, or because that fat tissue is associated with a lack of exercise and consequent development of vascular dementia, or for a range of other possible reasons. Here is another study on this topic: "High midlife body mass index (BMI) has been linked to a greater risk of dementia in late life, but few have studied the effect of BMI across midlife on cognitive abilities and cognitive change in a dementia-free sample....

  • The Automation of Tissue Engineering is Underway

    Updated: 2012-03-28 01:28:01
    Not all tissue structures need to be tailored to the patient - indeed, most of the present tissue engineering industry is in fact directly serving the research and development community rather than clinics. Engineered tissue is used for a broad range of testing, for example, and many life science research programs can progress more effectively with access to tissue structures rather than cells in a petri dish. As costs fall, that becomes an ever more practical alternative, meaning that research becomes more efficient and faster. Behind these falling costs lies a world of automation and infrastructure, leading towards assembly lines...

  • SENS Foundation Annual Report for 2011 Released

    Updated: 2012-03-27 00:56:12
    The SENS Foundation, a non-profit focused on both the development of rejuvenation biotechnology capable of reversing aging and establishing a larger research community to achieve that goal more effectively, has released their 2011 annual report (PDF). It's with great pleasure that I announce the release of our Annual Report for 2011. The report includes updates on all of our research projects, both at the Research Center in Mountain View, and at leading universities and institutions around the world. It reviews the success of SENS 5 and the expansion of our Academic Initiative, and summarises our financial situation through 2011. I...

  • Nanotechnology regrows blood vessels after ischemic damage

    Updated: 2012-03-26 22:15:23
    In a rat model of ischemic damage, nanoparticle delivery of a growth factor and a coreceptor promotes regrowth of damaged blood vessels in seven days.

  • Faster, less expensive medical diagnostics through nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-03-23 21:32:52
    New protein repellent coating enhances the speed of carbon nanotube-based biosensors, pointing the way to faster, cheaper medical diagnostics.

  • Alcor founder Fred Chamberlain cryopreserved

    Updated: 2012-03-22 17:33:32
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Alcor founder Fred Chamberlain cryopreserved 22. March 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on March 22, 2012. One of Alcor’s founders , Fred Chamberlain III has been cryopreserved at Alcor . His wife , and co-founder of Alcor , Linda Chamberlain , has released a document to announce his cryopreservation and honor : him One of our great intellectual and emotional bonds was our interest in technological means of extending life . Fred and I incorporated the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in 1972 the minutes of those early Alcor meetings can be viewed by those who might be interested . Many details

  • Carbon Nanotubes Help Renewable Energy Industry by Improving Wind Turbine Durability

    Updated: 2012-03-16 21:35:35
    Composites made with small amounts of multi-walled carbon nanotubes improve wind turbine blades by reducing mass while retaining strength.

  • Deadline tomorrow, March 14, for Life Extension Conference

    Updated: 2012-03-13 21:44:27
    Personalized Life Extension 2012 Mar 31-Apr 1, 2012 South San Francisco http://lifeextensionconference.com/ Hi folks — Join fellow Foresight members, self-trackers, self-experimenters, and health geeks to explore the latest ways to optimize your body and brain & slow aging. Foresight is a partner on the conference, so we can use discount code NANODOT for $100 off. [...]

  • Bad News for the Blog Team

    Updated: 2012-03-09 15:54:26
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  • Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders

    Updated: 2012-03-06 19:02:14
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders 06. March 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on March 6, 2012. On Saturday July 7, 2012, the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics Northwest will organize a symposium on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders in Portland , Oregon . The symposium will start at 09:00 am at the offices of Kaos Softwear . Entrance to the event is . free This symposium is the first event of its kind in the history of cryonics and concerns one of the most important challenges facing aging cryonicists . Please register for the event on our Facebook

  • Nanotechnology, digital fabrication, and innovation at TED

    Updated: 2012-03-03 04:37:48
    A talk at TEDxBerkeley includes nanotechnology among the options for digital fabrication, one of five new rules of innovation.

  • Alzheimer’s disease and cryonics

    Updated: 2012-03-02 00:49:10
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Alzheimer’s disease and cryonics 01. March 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Neuroscience Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on March 1, 2012. Conventional wisdom in life extension circles is that making cryonics arrangements allows one to benefit from rejuvenation technologies that are not available during one’s existing lifespan . Aside from the risk of high-impact accidents or getting lost at sea , there is one challenge that some cryonicists will face when they grow older the debilitating consequences of brain-threatening . disorders One of the unfortunate effects of the increase in human lifespan is a corresponding increase

  • Some of the Open Mike Future Salon Sessions

    Updated: 2012-03-01 06:43:12

  • Foresight Presents: An Intimate Evening w/Sonia Arrison, Author of 100+

    Updated: 2012-02-24 02:40:20
    Join us for an intellectually stimulating evening with best-selling author and tech analyst Sonia Arrison! Dinner and drinks will be served h’orderve/tapas-style at 7pm; Sonia will present at 8pm, with personalized, small-group Q&A on the future of technology to follow. Wednesday March 21, 2012 at Ristorante Don Giovanni, 235 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 [...]

  • Legal Protection of Cryonics Patients, Part 1

    Updated: 2012-02-23 17:25:55
    , Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Legal Protection of Cryonics Patients , Part 1 23. February 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Written by : Keegan Macintosh on February 23, 2012. In a previous article Aschwin de Wolf argues that it might be easier to persuade others that cryonics patients are still alive according to existing criteria of death , than to argue for the adoption of a more progressive definition , such as information-theoretic death . Presumably though , if we are to go to the trouble at all , it will not be solely to alleviate our subjective discomfort with the idea of being labelled dead , but rather because achieving such recognition

  • Machine learning may improve molecular design for nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-23 02:07:36
    A set of machine learning programs can now predict properties of small organic molecules as accurately as can calculations based upon the Schrödinger equation, but in milliseconds rather than hours.

  • Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics update

    Updated: 2012-02-22 08:13:58
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics update 22. February 2012 Comments Off Categories : News Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on February 22, 2012. The Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics website and the Depressed Metabolism blog have now been completely . integrated In 2007 the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics was established as a 501(c 3 tax exempt non-profit organization to educate the general public about cryonics and launch projects to improve the science and practice of cryonics . The Institute publishes the Depressed Metabolism blog about cryonics and life extension , hosts the Scientists’ Open Letter on Cryonics and

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