Tag Archives: longevity

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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ORlive – online repository of webcasts and videos of live surgeries

I just stumbled upon an incredible site called OR-live.com where you can witness live video of the latest surgical procedures. [...]

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IEEE special report on the singularity

IEEE produced a special report on the singularity in its June 2008 issue located here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity This is a comprehensive [...]

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The Fight to End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding

This article at Wired reports on the gaining acceptance of aging as a disease by society.  The article focuses on [...]

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