• Rejuvenation in the Jellyfish Turritopsis Dohrnii

    Updated: 2012-11-29 23:09:11
    Aging has evolved despite its terrible effects on the individual because over the long run it is highly effective in the evolutionary competition that takes place in most ecological niches - any amount of hardship and pain can be selected for if it means that genes are more effectively propagated. There are exceptions, however, in the form of successful species that do not appear to age; especially in the case of lower animals we can find life histories that look nothing like our own. Take the hydra, for example, or here the tiny jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii: [An individual Turritopsis dohrnii...

  • Kynurenine-Tryptophan Metabolism and Fly Longevity

    Updated: 2012-11-29 23:09:11
    Metabolism is a very complex set of overlapping mechanisms, feedback loops, and networks of protein interactions. So even if there are only a few core methods of extending life by altering metabolism in a species, we should expect to see scores of different ways to trigger some or all of that alteration - and with widely varying side-effects. This is one of the present challenges facing those researchers who focus on how metabolism and genes determine natural variations in longevity: mapping it all for any one species is a vast task. Here is one example of ongoing research drawn from...

  • Nanotechnology milestone: general method for designing stable proteins

    Updated: 2012-11-21 20:13:44
    Five proteins were designed from scratch and found to fold into stable proteins as designed, proving the ability to provide ideal, robust building blocks for artificial protein structures.

  • More complex circuits for synthetic biology lead toward engineered cells

    Updated: 2012-11-06 18:08:01
    One possible pathway from current technology to advanced nanotechnology that will comprise atomically precise manufacturing implemented by atomically precise machinery is through adaptation and extension of the complex molecular machine systems evolved by biology. Synthetic biology, which engineers new biological systems and function not evolved in nature, is an intermediate stage along this path. An [...]

  • Special Registration Discount - Emtech MIT 2012

    Updated: 2012-10-22 17:30:00
    Sponsored by MIT Technology Review, the EmTech MIT conference covers important innovations in energy, IT, bio, and the Web, and examines their impact.

  • Preserving and inferring

    Updated: 2012-10-17 17:31:55
    Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Preserving and inferring 17. October 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Science Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on October 17, 2012. A common complaint against cryonics is that existing cryopreservation technologies may not be good enough to preserve the ultrastructure of the human brain . Advocates of cryonics often object that such views do not reflect actual inspection of the evidence of cryopreserved brains but instead reflect misconceptions about freezing” and ice formation rupturing cells . But the more fundamental misconception rests on the view that for cryonics to work flawless preservation of the brain is absolutely .

  • Nanotechnology Education: Four Ways You Can Make A Contribution

    Updated: 2012-10-12 19:14:17
    Scientists, engineers, and enthusiasts can help bolster the understanding of and enthusiasm for nanotechnology in local communities with a little help from National Chemistry Week (October 21st-27th) and other user-friendly, volunteer programs.

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