• Modest Success in a Cancer Vaccine Trial

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:37:37
    German researchers trialing a generally applicable cancer vaccine technology find that it improves on chemotherapy, but remains a long way from a cure. Still, this is generally how matters proceed: first results are only first results, and much improvement lies ahead. "Researchers [have] published the results of two clinical studies using the kidney-cancer vaccine IMA901 ... It is composed of ten synthetic tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs), which activate the body's own killer T-cells against the tumor. Unlike chemotherapy, this process targets the body's immune responses and mobilizes them to attack the cancer. The studies show that this active immunization against cancer...

  • From a Recent Symposium on Cryonics and Dementia

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:37:37
    Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of the deceased, as rapidly as possible after death so as to preserve the fine structure of the brain before it can be damaged or decay. The body, or at least the head, are also preserved - but that is largely incidental to the real purpose, which is to store the mind encoded in the structure of neural tissue. For so long as that mind exists in low-temperature storage it has time to wait out progress in technology, the dawn of an age of medical molecular nanotechnology, and advanced tissue engineering capable of restoring that...

  • A Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Longevity Database

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:37:37
    Researchers recently announced a database of interesting material on the biology of longevity - one of a growing number of publicly available online databases in this field: "Discovering key cellular and molecular traits that promote longevity is a major goal of aging and longevity research. One experimental strategy is to determine which traits have been selected during the evolution of longevity in naturally long-lived animal species. This comparative approach has been applied to lifespan research for nearly four decades, yielding hundreds of datasets describing aspects of cell and molecular biology hypothesized to relate to animal longevity. Here, we introduce a...

  • NCBI ROFL: Do cops make good human breathalyzers? | Discoblog

    Updated: 2012-07-27 00:00:03
    : 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 Meet Phallostethus cuulong The Fish With Elaborate , Multi-Part Genitals On Its Chin NCBI ROFL : Hard core spiders fight better after . self-castration NCBI ROFL : Do cops make good human breathalyzers Police officers’ detection of breath odors from alcohol . ingestion Police officers frequently use the presence or absence of an alcohol breath odor for decisions on proceeding further into sobriety testing . Epidemiological studies report many false negative errors . The current study employed 20 experienced officers as observers to detect an alcohol odor from 14 subjects who

  • ApoE4, diet, and gender

    Updated: 2012-07-26 00:49:00
    , Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap ApoE4, diet , and gender 25. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Health Science Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 25, 2012. As we learn more about the human genome , there will be an increasing recognition that general diet recommendations are going to give way to diet recommendations that more closely track the genotype of individuals . For those interested in healthy life extension an important question concerns the relationship between ApoE status and diet . In Why We Age What Science Is Discovering About the Body’s Journey Through Life 1997 Steven N . Austad : writes piles of evidence suggest that certain genes have a

  • First symposium on cryonics and dementia

    Updated: 2012-07-26 00:30:33
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap First symposium on cryonics and dementia 25. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Health Neuroscience Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 25, 2012. The recent symposium on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders was a major success . On Saturday , July 7, 2012, around 30 people attended the first ever symposium on dementia and cryonics in Portland , Oregon . The symposium started with a brief introduction by Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics President Aschwin de Wolf , who emphasized why people with cryonics arrangements have a clear interest in understanding and avoiding dementia . The first speaker , Chana de Wolf

  • NANOYOU video introduces nanotechnology to students and others

    Updated: 2012-07-23 18:28:50
    A European Commission-funded video and education portal introduces nanotechnology to students and others.

  • Future Salon video

    Updated: 2012-07-18 21:25:41

  • New online game to design RNA molecules: advancing nanotechnology?

    Updated: 2012-07-16 19:58:34
    A new online game allows players to design RNA molecules. The most promising designs are synthesized, and the players given real-world feedback on how well their designs worked.

  • SAVE THE DATE: The 2013 Foresight Technical Conference

    Updated: 2012-07-12 16:13:44
    The 2013 Foresight Technical Conference: Illuminating Atomic Precision will be held January 11-13, 2013 in Palo Alto, CA USA.

  • Cryonics and dementia

    Updated: 2012-07-03 01:57:34
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Cryonics and dementia 02. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 2, 2012. In a few days the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics NW will host a symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders . We care deeply about this issue and some of us have observed fellow cryonicists succumb to advanced dementia prior to their cryopreservation or worse , the disease compromised their understanding of their cryonics arrangements and what it takes to keep them in place . Still , we have also observed that many cryonicists stick their head in the sand about this topic or are

  • Solid state synthetic molecular machine points to advanced nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-06-26 20:16:25
    Interlocking organic molecules held between copper atoms have been assembled in a void inside a solid state material to create a very simple molecular machine, a wheel that spins around an axle.

  • Chemopreservation in the real world

    Updated: 2012-06-20 08:57:11
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Chemopreservation in the real world 20. June 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Death Neuroscience Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on June 20, 2012. It is generally not the task of scientists to consider the legal , financial , and logistical limitations when searching for biomedical breakthroughs but there are good examples where considering the real-world applications of a technology can be instructive . Research aimed at preservation of brains or the connectome” is such an example . Even if chemopreservation can be demonstrated to preserve the intricate wiring of the brain , it can be safely assumed that there will not be a

  • About the Farm Bill

    Updated: 2012-06-15 18:15:43
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  • Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders Symposium schedule published

    Updated: 2012-06-08 23:50:43
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders Symposium schedule published 08. June 2012 Comments Off Categories : News Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on June 8, 2012. The schedule for the upcoming Portland Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders Symposium has been published On July 7, 2012 a number of high-profile and upcoming speakers in the cryonics and life extension community will talk about identity-destroying brain disorders and how diseases like Alzheimer’s can frustrate the objectives of the most ambitious life extentionists . Topics that will be discussed include the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s , emerging early-diagnosis

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