[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
[TECH NEWS] Growing living tissue and organs in the lab would be a life-saving trick. But replicating the complexity of an organ, by growing different types of cells in precisely the right arrangement—muscle held together with connective tissue and threaded with blood vessels, for example—is currently impossible. Researchers at MIT have taken a step toward this goal by coming up… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Steve Bridge We can be pleased that cryonics has entered the consciousness of writers these days enough so that it shows up frequently as a plot point in an increasing number of novels. Here I will discuss two books in some detail and one very briefly. Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen Books, 2010 Lois McMaster Bujold… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] By Mike Perry Review of Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman and Don Ross, with David Spurrett and John Collier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) As immortalists we hope to be in the world for a good long while, thus we are interested in the nature of reality. Reality determines, among other things, what our… Read more »
