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[TECH NEWS] BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX) Jan. 3 announced a $4 million equity financing by its subsidiary, Embryome Sciences, Inc. Concurrent with the financing, Embryome Sciences will be renamed ReCyte Therapeutics, Inc. and will develop therapeutic products for cardiovascular and blood diseases. The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that a potential 58 million Americans afflicted with cardiovascular disease and… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] Whitehead Institute researchers have linked hyperactivity in the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) cellular pathway, to reduced ketone production, which is a well-defined physiological trait of aging in mice. Their results are reported in the December 23 edition of the journal Nature. “This is the first paper that genetically shows that the mTORC1 pathway in mammals… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In research published Dec. 19, scientists have studied human brain samples to isolate a set of proteins that accounts for over 130 brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsies and forms of autism and learning disability. The brain is the most complex organ in the body with millions of nerve cells connected by billions of synapses. Within… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] UCSF researchers have identified an existing medication that restores key elements of the immune system that, when out of balance, lead to a steady decline in immunity and health as people age. The team found that extremely low doses of the drug lenalidomide can stimulate the body’s immune-cell protein factories, which decrease production during aging, and rebalance the… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] The global scientific community is increasingly recognizing the role of rejuvenation biotechnologies in addressing age-related disease. This week, Arizona-based businessman Jason Hope announced a $500,000 donation to SENS Foundation, a California-based non-profit organization that works to develop, promote and ensure widespread access to rejuvenation biotechnologies which comprehensively address age-related disease. “I have had great interest in the SENS… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In Alzheimer’s disease, a protein fragment called beta-amyloid accumulates at abnormally high levels in the brain. Now researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that in the most common, late-onset form of Alzheimer’s disease, beta-amyloid is produced in the brain at a normal rate but is not cleared, or removed from the brain, efficiently. In… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] The largest clinical trial of therapeutic brain cooling (hypothermia) after stroke has launched, led by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. This study looks at whether hypothermia can safely be used in elderly stroke patients. In earlier studies, brain cooling… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] It sounds like science fiction – Dr. Siegfried Hekimi and his student Dr Wen Yang, researchers at McGill’s Department of Biology, tested the current “free radical theory of aging” by creating mutant worms that had increased production of free radicals, predicting they would be short-lived. But they lived even longer than regular worms! Moreover, their enhanced longevity was… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In the nanoworld many things are different. Scientists only recently started unveiling and harnessing the underlying laws and principles. A team associated with Professor Johannes Barth from the Physics Department of the TU Muenchen have now succeeded in capturing rod-shaped molecules in a two-dimensional network in such a way that they autonomously form small rotors that turn in… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] Chronosphere, the new blog of cryonics researcher and ex-President of Alcor, Michael Darwin, features a pictorial history of extracorporeal technology in cryonics and provides an in-depth look at the use of conventional medical technologies and medical professionals in cryonics. 02/06/11, Chronosphere
