Tag Archives: longevity

Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant

An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]

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Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates

This post was originally published on the Gravity and Levity Blog, and has been republished on Singularity Hub with permission from [...]

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Studies Consistently Fail To Show Benefits Of Dietary Supplements – Experts Think It’s Time To Reevaluate

“Don’t forget to take your vitamins?” That healthful reminder from mom may soon become a thing of the past. While [...]

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Sonia Arrison Brings Longevity To the Masses With Her Book 100+

What would you do with another 75 years on this Earth? Not as a pain wracked wizened elder in a [...]

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Sperm Donor Has Fathered 150 Children

Imagine finding out you had a half-sister. You might want to contact her, find out where she lives, what she [...]

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Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine

It was only a year ago that ACell’s “miracle powder” was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the [...]

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Eat Food, Mostly Plants… Live Indefinitely?

When lunchtime rolls around, what are you thinking about: your health or your hunger? We all want to eat healthier [...]

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Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye

Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]

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Immortal Jellyfish Provides Clues for Regenerative Medicine

The search for the fountain of youth has been ongoing ever since man decided that dying wasn’t all that appealing. [...]

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Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)

A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]

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Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance Causes WHO to Declare: “The World is on the Brink…”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The widespread misuse of antibiotics is rapidly rendering them powerless against infection. Common infections that [...]

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Another Dog Sniffs Cancer – So Why Aren’t Dogs In The Clinic?

Maybe you’ve heard that line about dogs being able to tell whether or not someone has cancer just by smelling [...]

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At Least Half of Americans Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic by 2020

We have heard for years that diabetes is a serious problem in America, but people really do not like to [...]

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Harvard Scientists Reverse Aging in Mice – Total Bullsh*t

According to those idiots over at the Guardian, “Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans”. [...]

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Cancer Rates in the US Continue to Drop, ACS Reports

The annual report from the American Cancer Society shows that US cancer death rates continue to decline in both men [...]

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Mprize: Your Children Could Be Immortal

If living forever isn’t enough motivation to get scientists to study longevity, maybe $3.8 million will work instead. That’s the [...]

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CDC Report: Americans Living Longer, But Not As Long as Everyone Else

With the ongoing health care debate raging across the US, it’s good to know that we lived slightly longer in [...]

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Blue Zones – Places In the World Where People Live to 100 and Stay Healthy

They are called blue zones – places in the world where people live longer and healthier than anywhere else on [...]

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Just Like That, Sakhan Dosova No Longer World’s Oldest Person

Last month we wrote about Sakhan Dosova, a woman from Kazakhstan who created a sensation when it was revealed that [...]

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Freezing Lazarus: The Cryonics of Eternal Life

Want to live forever? You’re not alone. For as long as we humans have contemplated our own mortality, the dream [...]

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Life Extension Revealed

Didn’t have the time or the interest to watch Oprah’s Extreme Life Extension Show that aired on TV yesterday?  Luckily [...]

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Silicon Valley’s Transhumanist Movement Uncovered

David Gelles from The Futurist has written a very detailed piece that describes Silicon Valley as the epicenter of a [...]

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Researchers Stop Decline In Organ Function Associated With Old Age

As humans age the systems in our cells for cleaning up unwanted proteins and other debris become less efficient. It [...]

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World’s Oldest Person?

I recently stumbled upon some articles on the oldest people alive and thought it would be interesting to post this [...]

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Living past 100 years with anti-aging genes

Two separate projects are both analyzing the genes of healthy, old (90 or even 100 years) people to see if [...]

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