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This interesting research result adds a little more to the debate over whether nuclear DNA damage is relevant to aging beyond its effects on cancer risk - though I think it's still a bit early to point to differences in DNA repair as the definitive cause of SIRT6-related longevity in mice: researchers "found that the decline in a cell's ability to repair DNA during aging coincided with a global reduction in the levels of proteins involved in the repair process. [They] tried to reverse the age-related decline in DNA repair efficiency by restoring the proteins to their original levels and...
Updated: 2012-08-31 18:39:04
A discussion on published results from this primate study suggest that both it and a comparison study are different in ways that make it harder to pull rigorous conclusions from the data - beyond the fact that diet clearly has influence, and the effects of calorie restriction on life span (average and maximum) are expected to be smaller in longer-lived species versus shorter-lived speces: "Scientists have found that calorie restriction - a diet composed of approximately 30 percent fewer calories but with the same nutrients of a standard diet - does not extend years of life or reduce age-related deaths...
Updated: 2012-08-31 09:26:47
Frederik Pohl
Updated: 2012-08-28 23:16:52
September 6, 2012. San Francisco. General admission to Design Night is $20 and student admission is $10. Admission fees include access to the exhibits, content such as a speaker, music, a hosted bar, and hands-on activities.
Updated: 2012-08-27 20:16:38
The conceptual history of nanotechnology is usually traced to a classic talk “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which was first published in Caltech Engineering and Science, Volume 23:5, February [...]
Updated: 2012-08-13 18:03:16
From Desiree D. Dudley, Foresight Director of Development and Outreach: 1)Foresighters Christine Peterson and Desiree Dudley will be speaking at NASA-Ames’ Singularity University this Monday night, August 13th, from 8-10pm. Presentations are from 8-9, and a Q&A panel with H+’s Amy Li and SU’s Jose Cordiero 9-10pm! Topics will include nanotech, biotech, life-extension, and our [...]
Updated: 2012-08-07 00:47:09
I am speaking on nanotechnology at a free event at Stanford this Wednesday evening. The Nanocentury: Bringing Digital Control to the Physical World. Throughout human history, our species has worked to control the matter surrounding us — building larger and larger, smaller and smaller, more and more precise. The payoffs from these efforts are starting [...]
Updated: 2012-07-26 00:49:00
, Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap ApoE4, diet , and gender 25. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Health Science Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 25, 2012. As we learn more about the human genome , there will be an increasing recognition that general diet recommendations are going to give way to diet recommendations that more closely track the genotype of individuals . For those interested in healthy life extension an important question concerns the relationship between ApoE status and diet . In Why We Age What Science Is Discovering About the Body’s Journey Through Life 1997 Steven N . Austad : writes piles of evidence suggest that certain genes have a
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Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap First symposium on cryonics and dementia 25. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Health Neuroscience Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 25, 2012. The recent symposium on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders was a major success . On Saturday , July 7, 2012, around 30 people attended the first ever symposium on dementia and cryonics in Portland , Oregon . The symposium started with a brief introduction by Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics President Aschwin de Wolf , who emphasized why people with cryonics arrangements have a clear interest in understanding and avoiding dementia . The first speaker , Chana de Wolf
Updated: 2012-07-23 18:28:50
A European Commission-funded video and education portal introduces nanotechnology to students and others.
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Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics Home About Organization What is cryonics Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics Depressed Metabolism Blog Mailing Lists Sitemap Cryonics and dementia 02. July 2012 Comments Off Categories : Cryonics Written by : Aschwin de Wolf on July 2, 2012. In a few days the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics and Cryonics NW will host a symposium on Cryonics and Brain-Threatening Disorders . We care deeply about this issue and some of us have observed fellow cryonicists succumb to advanced dementia prior to their cryopreservation or worse , the disease compromised their understanding of their cryonics arrangements and what it takes to keep them in place . Still , we have also observed that many cryonicists stick their head in the sand about this topic or are
