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Tag Archives: longevity
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Lives Of Mice By Up To 24 Percent
Scientists are doing their best to give us the gift of immortality. The latest in the fight against ever dying [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged chromosome, dna, gene therapy, lifespan, longevity, maría blasco, medicine, mice, regenerative medicine, telomerase
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Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]
Lab-Grown Burger To Be Served In Six Months
A number of laboratories around the world are trying to grow meat in a Petri dish. So far we’ve heard [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged cultured meat, factory farms, in vitro meat, longevity, mark post, sustainability
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While Average Lifespans Increase, 114 Remains A Stubborn And Mysterious Upper Bound. Why?
Ray Kurzweil predicts that in the coming decades the term “life expectancy” will become irrelevant. By then medical advances and [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged Aubrey De Grey, genes, Genetics, longevity, medicine, rectangularization of mortality curve
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printing, bone implant, layerwise, longevity, medicine, regenerative medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged 100, 100 plus, life extension, longevity, regenerative medicine, Sonia Arrison
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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 [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged fertility clinics, in vitro fertilization, longevity, louise brown, medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged david murdock, health, live forever, longevity, murdock
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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 [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged longevity, medicine, nanotechnology, robotics, telerobot
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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. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged body 2.0, brain, brain-computer interface, longevity, medicine
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged diabetes, diabetic, fat, longevity, obese, obesity
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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”. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged aging, Aubrey De Grey, david sinclair, immortality, longevity, Methuselah Foundation, Mprize, Steven Spindler, ted, xprize
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, CDC, diabetes, heart disease, longevity, NCHS, obesity, Terry Grossman
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged centenarian, dosova, longevity, oldest person, sakhan dosova, supercentenarian
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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 [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged alcor, cryopreservation, cyronics, deep freeze, longevity, vitrification
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