Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, futurist as well as author of The Singularity is Near has developed documentary film: Transcendent Man.

Ray’s film is inspirational to all ages, and will possibly help to motivate funding for development of technology that can rejuvenate our organs as well as the body.

The Transcendent Man is a derivates of Kurzweil’s famous singularity prediction. New technologies starting from the simple printing press to Google are tools, which are rapidly helping new technologies to evolve even faster. In other words, the pace of innovation is an exponential curve that accelerates.

Moore’s law has been significantly explained in Kurzweil’s prediction and applied to social connection as well as informative technology. For instance, if the trend of computer was to be extrapolated, we can see super-computers occupying full-sized room, now being reduced to the size of only a laptop.

Biology is also being transcended into an informative science with progress in genomic sequencing. Machines are not only supporting research. They are even promoting better health and enabling us to overcome body limitations. In the near future, it might be even feasible to introduce nanobots into our blood stream to fight real viruses.

According to Kurzweil, in three decades henceforth singularity will be achieved, and machines will be so intelligent that human won’t be necessary to continue to innovate. The inventions will solve all possible traceable issues associated with aging and death.

Most of us considered singularity to be a provocative prediction. However, Kurzweil has made several accurate predictions such as in 1970s he said that in 1998, computer will become the world’s most performing chess player. In the 1970s this seemed impossible.

Singularity is something highly feasible; it is in line with physics laws. So it is rather a question of when it will happen than if it will happen.

Who is Ray Kurzweil, in the 1960s he was a teenager when he made a computer which analyzed as well as composed classical music. He achieved this at MIT. After school, he produced an optical character recognition (OCR) system. innovation that followed was manifold including large-vocabulary speech recognition software as well as text-to-speech software for people who were blind.

At the age of 35 years, Ray suffered from diabetes a disease that his father died from. However, instead of sitting back waiting for his grave, he decided to comprehend the chemistry behind diabetes. After fully understanding the condition, he designed a regime of various medical supplements. Currently, he claims that he has been able starve-off the havoc of age. He has even published two books on his medical research.

The film predicts that humanity will be able to go way beyond the current biological boundaries. The aim is to one day be able to overcome death and to become immortal. So in 2 decades microscopic robots should be able to heal most of our potential health predicaments.

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On Monday, a significant report was published by members of the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society. It states that the U.S Social Security Administration and Census Bureau have miscalculated the average American lifespan in 2050 by 3 to 8 years.

The forecast is that women can live between 89 to 94 years on average in contrast to the state’s prediction which is between 83 to 85 years. Moreover, according to the group, men are estimated to live between 83 to 86 years while the government’s limited their life expectancy to 80 years in 2050.

Co- author of the report, S. Jay Olshansky, says that additional years to one’s life might seem futile but the social and financial impact remains unquestionable. It is to be noted that Olshansky is a professor in the school of public health at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He goes on to state that in the future, the younger population will not be able to meet the demands of the elderly. These may range from improved transport, health care to new retirement schemes.

Staying Alive – Americans

Throughout many years, the government, more exactly the U.S. Social Security Administration, has made lifespan projections that have been quite precise. A man born in the early 20th century was assumed to live up to 60 years whereas one born in 2005 was expected to reach 74.

However , Olshansky and his colleagues emphasise that the government’s projections are often oblivious of the prevailing advances in biomedical technology which prolong life. His aging group firmly believes that this scientific progress will combat diseases differently or even curb the aging process.

In a report published on Monday in The Milbank Quarterly, Olshansky and his group maintain that progress in life expectancy will accelerate unlike the government which expects the contrary.

To justify his claim, Olshansky mentions that medicine fighting cancer based on an individual’s genes already exists. Hence, many people expect a rise in longevity. Furthermore, experiments on animals having similar genes and hormones as human beings have revealed that prolongation of life is possible.

Science Quest for Radical Increase In Longevity

Dr. Sharon Brangman, chief of geriatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y, also accepts that science can extend our lifespan. Nevertheless, she does not believe that science is the sole factor leading to improved life expectancy. A plethora of reasons are responsible for this enhancement in longevity and these are: middle-aged people are more health-conscious; others are aware of the dangers of smoking and avoid a lifestyle causing heart diseases.

Dr. Cheryl Phillips, president of the American Geriatrics Society, was doubtful about the possibility of fighting aging. According to her, mortality is inexorable and such research does not eclipse aging. Yet, she agreed that biomedical technology can increase our lifespan by defeating some specific diseases.

It is to be highlighted that Phillips, Olshansky and Brangman all caution that living longer can create some malaise too. For instance, those additional years of life can entail personal and social afflictions since birth rate has fallen compared to a generation ago.

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Problems of Longevity

Dr Phillips asserts that in the short term, living longer can be problematic. Sound forecasts for 2030 suggest that one in five Americans will be over 65. Subsequently, people suffering from dementia or those who are dependent will have to endure more pain.

Even if Olshansky’s expectation is a misconceived one, those involved in geriatric care agree that living longer will be a burden to society in the next 40 years. Dr. Phillips underlines that both psychological and physical degeneration is inevitable as people become older. In reality, many individuals do not wish to reach 120 if they are already disabled by 80. In addition, geriatric experts deplore that the young as well will feel the burden of an aging society.

Elders in Our Modern Society?

Dr. Phillips is concerned that America depends on cheap immigrant labor without professional aptitudes to care for the elderly. Eventually, it is not certain that this labor force will be available in the future. Furthermore, Brangman draws our attention to the fact that America might not have the required talented workforce to be the substitutes of geriatric care employees due to brain-drain.

Olshansky and colleagues affirm that some of the pernicious aspects of an aging society can be averted. This is feasible if medicine enables healthier life as people grow old and if society can fully integrate the old. In that process, education will have to be reviewed and new working opportunities must be accessible to the old. At the same time, the concept of retirement and transport should be altered.

Professor Olshansky stresses that it is now time to enhance the life of the elderly.

Source: ABC News

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We are talking about technologies that will make us smarter, stronger, happier and even morally better-off.

Fields of Human Enhancement

In recent articles there have been five areas where human capacities are being enhanced:

1. Lifespan – Medical intervention to reverse or to stop aging
2. Physical – Enhancement in physical abilities mainly strength
3. Cognitive – boosting up mental capacities, like our memory
4. Moral – establishing more ethical motivations
5. Mood – inducing positive emotional experience

These changes that we are inducing to our biological self will not only impact our current lifestyle but also that of the future. For instance, mental fatigue can nowadays be reduced with drugs.

A study found that, 16 percent of University Students’ in US consumed modafinil as a cognitive enhancing drug; a drug that memory.

We have already reached an advance stage of human enhancement, with the availability of bionic eyes and cochlear implants.

For those faced with depression, we have drugs known as antidepressants that are aimed to make us feel better.

Technology integration into human enhancement has, until now, been experienced with safety. The progress is extremely fast. Experiments carried out on genes of mice showed improvement in memory performance. It has been noted that similar pathways are present in humans. It might soon be possible to provide interventions that can radically improve our cognition abilities.

Another area of enhancing human capabilities is extending our longevity. In this field, we already have various medical interventions (telomere lengthening drugs) and recommendation available.

On the other side, neuroscience is finding ways to alter our sense of morality, and improve behaviours.

What will Human Enhancement Mean?

There are ethical and technical debates on the issues of human enhancement. There are those who fear the possibility of an abuse while other believes it to be a solution for all problems.

The typical definition of Human Enhancement is the leverage in traditional traits beyond ‘species-typical normal functioning’. The main debate is concerning what is really traditional?

1. What is Human-typical Functioning?
2. What is the difference between enhancement and therapy?
3. How is our identity changed via Human Enhancement?

A more balanced view on enhancement is that it should induce psychological or biological changes to a person in the aim of improving the chance of the individual to have a better life, with relevance to our surrounding.

As long as human enhancement is defined as something that improves our lives, than most of the debates surrounding the topic dissipates. In addition, if a change improves our lives, then it is really hard for people to argue and say that it is bad for people.

Book: Enhancing Human Capacities

The book ‘Enhancing Human Capacity’ does heavily investigate whether leveraging human capacity is ethically acceptable in various perspectives. Is it too unnatural, does it cause any harm to the eco-system, people in the surrounding?

The book is ostensibly convincingly in favour of lifespan extension, cognitive improvement and to improve our state of mind (mood).

It is still true, that we are unaware about the long-term consequences of human enhancement. We only know the immediate benefits to people.

Source: The Conversation

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In an outstanding article written by Mike Darwin in the year 1991 (COLD WAR: The Conflict between Cryonicists and Cryobiologists), an in-depth story about the causes of this particular war was published, and a conclusion was drawn that the problem was triggered by a disagreement in standards between several important people and not by cryonics science itself. Cryobiologists then assumed the need to cease all connections with the ghastly news from the mass about the first few human cryonic preservation efforts, hence turning the conflict into a hideous, prolonged battle.

This worsened the situation. Several well-known cryobiology experts provocatively flagged cryonics as a pointless attempt and called for a widespread ban on human cryopreservation rather than resolving to a more peaceful way – offering a suggestion to shut down cryonic procedures momentarily until a set of rules is available to highlight the lowest standard needed to perform cryopreservation. Offended by the cryobiologists and in anger over their stolen fundamental human rights, the Cryonics retaliated and carried on with their unprofessional cryopreservations of which everyone in this modern scientific world sees as “next to hopeless”.

Consecutively, the cryobiologists commenced on eliminating the qualifications of cryonicists as well as on turning down their proposals and financial requests. This common bitterness has been deeply rooted for tens of years.

Darwin claimed that both cryonics advocates and cryobiologists were close to ruining each other in the mentioned “Cold War”. The cryobiological community’s once alluring objective to propose “reversible suspended animation” for urgent medical applications and for journeys into the outer space turned into ashes. This was all, because their wide-known perceptions on cryonic preservation killed the interest of most enthusiasts in the stated technology.

On the other hand, the cryobiologists’ anti-cryonics protests that were publicly visible drastically slowed the development pace of the cryonics field. Most proficient and financially stable research centers (that used to race against each other to idealize the cryonic techniques) lost enthusiasm in advancing the technology.

Indeed, the community of cryonics has suffered a more significant loss. Perhaps, if professional cryobiologists did not wage war against their cryonics counterparts, the idea of having a proficient team of cryonicists ready upon request to carry out an in-time and first-class emergency cryopreservation in every hospital may not be that far-fetched. Unfortunately, current cryonics companies are “unregulated” and are providing services under law restrictions that prohibit ideal cryopreservation. Not to mention, these companies are also at risk of bankruptcy.

Kenneth Hayworth has a strong faith that the Brain Preservation Technology Prize will terminate the “Cold War”. Previous cryonic preservation discussions by the majority group of scientists have all the time been structured by cryobiologists who think cryonics should be dubbed “quack medicine” until the resuscitation of a cryopreserved “dead” individual is made possible. Irritated by this traditional argument, the Brain Preservation Technology Prize is structured to link cryonics to the neuroscience society’s ambitions by posting a question regarding the promise cryonics hold in preserving the brain’s exact synaptic connectivity pattern which, as indentified by neurobiologists, encodes the memories and personality of an individual.

Mainstream neuroscientists, who are greater in numbers, more acknowledged and financially more secure than the cryobiologists, hold great hopes about the potential of cryonics. The hypothetical knowledge of molecules, synapses, neurons, neural network and systems, as well as the imaging techniques for locating unique synaptic connections have advanced incredibly during recent years.

In the past seven years, the inventions of various modern automated electron imaging techniques have allowed nanometer resolution of the image of a plastic implanted and chemically fixated brain tissue piece. All neural synaptic circuits in a tiny block can then be analyzed with sureness. Recently, a document in the Nature magazine utilized one of the automated electron imaging techniques to recreate the exact neural connectivity in a retina’s cells and further compared the image with existing data extracted from active and working neurons. It is deduced that traced neuron-to-neuron wiring within the plastic block could be used to guess the initial roles of the neurons.

Hayworth has had plenty of non-public interviews with neurobiologists throughout the decade and have discovered that nearly all of his neuroscience associates foresee the invention of completely simulated brains with human-like intellect and consciousness. Due to the development of the electron imaging techniques mentioned, neurobiologists are now more open to opinions regarding the likelihood of drawing a whole human brain diagram at the synapse-level resolution and the possibility of creating an artificial brain. Most of them also concur that the thoughts of each human can be uploaded into computers by “scanning” the collective circuits of the brain.

Hayworth is very confident that both cognitive science and neuroscience experts will willingly accept the challenge outlined in the Brain Preservation Technology Prize, seeing that they are already prepared to dedicate themselves to build a promising scientific future. He eagerly anticipates a turning point in the mind-set of the entire scientific society towards the concept of cryonic preservation, as soon as the first few groups start to demonstrate significant advancement towards the goals of the prize. The “Cold War”, as Hayworth believes, will be terminated, and both scientific and cryonics society will move forward to a new scientific era where the two opposing groups will learn to work together.

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A new documentary was recently released by Mark Wexler, who is aged 54. He named his movie ‘how to live forever’. In this movie, he has emphasized on how science and spiritual efforts can help to increase human longevity.

He has been doing intense research to understand the underling mechanism behind aging and the potential means to reduce the aging effect. The film involves interviews with famous biologists and gerontologists such as Kurzwil, Jack Lalnne and other people.

The film was launched recently in Los Angeles and New York. This film will be displayed in all the cities of US. Wexler who is not only the writer but also the director of the movie said that, in coming 20 to 30 years people will be able to live longer. Maybe this movie can create awareness for people about the possibility of living forever.

There are several trailers for the movie available online on Youtube. In one of the clips, you can find funny longevity champions such as Bustin Martin, who was a 101 years old British before his death. At his advance age, he did smoke and drinking and participated in marathons and still lived for long.

This is not just a movie but in fact, is another research work on science of immortality. In the movie, you can see Wexler talking to two famous scientists Aubrey Grey and Sherwin Nualand.

Wexler got the inspiration of making this movie from his personal challenges; He lost his mother and got his AARP card. He did then find out that he was running short of life. This was the reason behind making this documentary movie. He derived interesting facts after his research on how to live forever. The secret to longevity does not reside how well you live. He says that he still takes many supplements.

The movie is a strange blend of personal struggle and scientific research. You should be motivated to watch this movie if you want to live forever. If you want to watch the movie then keep on getting updates from the website of How to live forever. It’s up to us to choose whether we really want to live longer.

The documentary made by Wexler’s can guide us to the journey of longevity and health. So if you want to live longer and a healthier life then get ready to watch this movie.

Source: Singularity Hub

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At the exhibition, a future embryo was also displayed, beside there were also many robots. A video has been attached to below to have the expression of how people are feeling about human enhancement. The idea is so fascinating said a professor at the gallery. And he also said that it is imagined that certain body organism will be produced in future species, which will speak, like it would say that I am bored, etc. The professor also showed an extra ear which he incorporated in his arm for enhancement.

All these ideas of future human species are displayed at the gallery by various providers. It raises questions as, what would be our behavior of living with robots? And how would we like to be enhanced to be eternal?

Science Gallery: Human Enhancement

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The article describes how Human Biological Immortality will turn out to be a direct result of natural evolution. This natural process can be accelerated in various ways like via the concept of ELPIs (Extreme Lifespan Through Perpetual-Equalising Interventions).

Marios Kyriazis MD, Biomedical Gerontologist says that the change from evolution to natural selection after the Darwinian notion is a fundamental transition in biology. The Kuhnian paradigm shift might soon be seen. (Kuhnian paradigm shift = change in assumption and belief associated to human evolution).

Aging as a cause of death is a phenomenon that scientific doctrines are unable to explain. However, progress and new paradigm provide insight why it is important for human to live for centuries for human intellect to evolve. Death caused by aging, is considered as a premature reason for decease and should be altered if not even eradicated.

Understanding Evolution

Our world operates through a very complex mechanism. For instance, organisms do constantly evolve to self-organise themselves into a higher level of dynamism. The whole universe ostensibly evolves in a similar way. Organisms do hierarchically progress to achieve exceedingly higher levels of complexity. Currently, the self-organisation of human neural tissues is considered as the most complex known evolution; human intelligence.

Since 14 to 20 billion years ago the universe began and the fundamental law of nature became prevalent. The gradual progress in the self-organization constantly occurred and organic life came to the existence some 4 billion years ago.
Since, 200 million years ago life became even more complex as the Darwinian Theory of evolution came to application. Living organisms began to evolve based on natural selection. Organisms slowly become more complex to reach higher levels of superiority. This progress constantly increased in pace. Besides, the modern human, (Homo sapiens sapiens), came to existence some 200 thousand years ago. Since then humans have steadily kept evolving and now we (humans) are even able to manipulate the evolution of the human species itself through technology.

Singularity

The notion of Singularity is increasingly important when talking about exponential progress.. It applies to ‘Technological and development Singularities’. The notion behind singularity is that progress increase at an exponential rate.

“…the idea that the most complex of the universe’s extant systems (galaxies, stars, habitable planets, living systems, and now technological systems) use progressively less space, time, energy and matter (“STEM”) to create the next level of complexity in their evolutionary development”.

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In other words, singularity explains that the progress occurring by natural selection of evolution will gradually become less relevant as technology and development of human intellects are taking the forerun.

Humans will change through the ‘Developmental Singularity processes. This implies that complexity will be reaped at a faster speed. It might not take long before digital-assisted biological development transcends humans into ‘transhumans’. This transition will take decades. However, it will no longer take thousands or millions of years to see ‘radical progress’.

The interesting thing is that, the progress in human intelligence has to be realised quickly to stay-in line with the order of natural laws of self-development. The whole theory on progress in human intelligence is based on the concept of human longevity. Technology is likely to make humans superior beings akin to some type of super humans with self-conscious and super-intelligent systems (like the internet).

This theory is contrary to that of the Darwinian evolution theory, which states that living creatures have to die fast to assure natural replacement. This notion is linked to the Disposable Soma Theory,

The evolution that occurs through natural selection is simply a function that produces things for a purpose and then naturally discards them. This assures that things constantly progress into more complexity organisms but with an end due to aging.

Death through aging can be ended if evolution via natural selection is stopped. It should also be noted that the natural evolution is a nasty process which perpetually seeks to increase complexity. This process will progress, even if it means the demise of the human species.

The possibility to achieve higher complexity with the use of technology-assisted human intelligence can but a stop to the rude natural end of life. Sustaining the life of neural tissues might be the secret to solve aging and to stop death.

Source: ELP Theory

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It is the tech savvy and hipper younger generations who grasp inferences of the exploding underlying science immediately. The problem is that the younger generations do not perceive it as being something urgent. Moreover, the younger generations do not possess as much money as their parents.

It remains ironic as the one who need it and can pay for it, do not get it and those who do not need it, can get it. Therefore, left to the natural order of things, hundreds of millions of senior citizens will die prematurely as research slogs along. However, man is usually not satisfied with the natural order of things, but if it is not man, then who is going to push research into high gear.

A conference named Longevity Now that took place last week, stressed on raw foods and organic living. The conference also revealed, for the very first time, cutting edge life extending technologies. The majority of the conference attendees were young. In reality, they were what can be termed as “longevity hippies”. Just like the hippies of the years 1960′s and 1970′s were on the same wavelength with nature. In fact, a major part of them even smelled like nature. The conference was made up to a large extent of these great unwashed’s children and grandchildren. Nevertheless, they were cleaner, hipper and tech savvy. While their grandparents contented themselves to live merely in the present, they have their eye on the future. However, being able to grasp the possibilities and implications of coming events and making them take place are two different things.

One needs motivation in order to make sure that something take place, and to be strongly motivated, one needs to have a burning desire accompanied with a sense of urgency. It is true that as one ages, the desire to remain young increases and this has been so for thousands of years. But to turn that motivation into results, one needs to have a plan. And prior to making and activating any plan, the plan needs to firstly make sense. There needs to be an achievable end point. That was not presently possible. The tech savvy young integrate age reversal end points without any difficulty. But most of the time, they did not have the needed motivation. They are too busy taking pleasure in their youth to make an effort to preserve it. They believe that they have lots of time to let progress catch up, and they are not wrong.

It is the older generation that lacks time. They are in race against time. In fact the world is not becoming younger; the older generation is simply aging. The young generation is similar to what the older generation were; they are growing up, squandering their youth and at the same time steadily gaining wisdom in the process. By the time, these same young people have their children and grandchildren, the problem of aging would have long been solved. But unless the agenda is given a push now, it will not be solved in time for the actual senior citizens.

Therefore what is the answer to this problem? The scientists already have a good knowledge of what needs to be done, what are lacking are time, money and organization. Until a way is found to raise the money in time to develop the technologies that are needed, the older generation will carry on to take their money to their graves in place of hanging around and using and building their fortune to make this world a better place to live in.

Source: Maximum Life Foundation, originally written by David Kekich

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Alice C. Fan, M.D, instructor in the division of oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine, says that the aim is to comprehend how drug functions for various individuals. With the use of this new tool (technology) it is possible to measure the effects of therapeutic agents in difference cell population, such as tumor cells, to see how they react within the patients. The fact that we can conduct such measurement, means that we are stepping closer towards personalized therapies.

This study was brought up at the Fourth AACR International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development.

In order to conduct research finding cancer agents it is fundamental to perform various invasive biopsies to derive a sufficient amount of cells for laboratory testing. Fan together with her team developed an extremely sensitive test namely nano-immunoassay (NIA), which allows nanoscale protein measurements in cells without the need for fine-needle aspirates or large invasive blood draws.

In various studies NIA has been used for clinical trial settings and diagnostic testing. The RAS and MAP kinase pathways were accurately spotted, and it could be said whether it was normal or tumor cells. So the researchers could use this information to categories various groups of tumor cells.

The proteins in cells were particularly analyzed for patient suffering from myelodysplastic or lymphoma syndrome. According to Fan, two new treatments for these diseases seemed to have measurable effect on protein functioning in tumor cells.

NIA was used together with flow cytometry to distinguish the effect the drug had on normal cells and tumor cells inside a patient.

The use of NIA gives real data as information is derived after immediate applications of drugs. It does therefore, help to understand what and how proteins get targets in the patient’s cells.

In the future, nanoscale research can help to treat various stages of cancer. The ability to perform valuable protein measurement in a small amount of tissues will help to identify tumors showing signs of the disease at an early stage.

The use of NIA will be highly important in the examination of uncommon cell population like circulating tumor cell as well as cancer stem cells.

Source: E-science news and American Association for Cancer Research

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Currently, above 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Many biologists and scientists have associated aging as a leading factor towards Parkinson’s disease. There exists an array of medicines that alleviates problems, such as movement, walking, and tremor, associated with Parkinson’s disease. Nevertheless, these medications do usually become less effective over time.

These two diseases do gradually deprive individuals from their own independence and therefore, affect families and society at large. Another curse of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease is that their treatments are costly causing an equally fast decline in personal finances and mental functioning for victims.

Unfortunately, these are only two of many diseases that negatively affect the conditions of older adults. The curse of old age seems inescapable. The only hope that remains is the await for additional promising preventions that can decrease or postpone the effect of the aging diseases. Otherwise, America will be facing pervasive rise of an aging disable and infirm population as the Baby Boomers are reaching old-age.

The National Institutes of Health in America is spending nearly $30 billion on health research per annum. The research fund plays an important role in supporting the progress of treatments, knowledge and cures towards various illnesses. However, when scrutinizing the huge investment in health research, one might start to think why we haven’t yet found a cure for silent killers such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

A strong reason why treatments has been developed is that, an insignificant attention is given to discoveries made in labs. Therefore, during the actual development of the medicine very little information leaks out to the public. However, there is a gap. Bringing new drugs into the market has since long been categorised as inadequately funded. This is why there is a slow progress from discovery of new solutions to the realisation of new medicine.

Recently, the health reform bill created the Cure Acceleration Network (CAN) which aims at breaching the gap between discovery and development of new treatments by providing grants. The grants will be provided to assure that new discoveries in labs transcend into treatments and therapies, in the real world (hospitals and clinics). CAN does also keep stakeholders aware about advancement of new drugs. This helps these stakeholders in need of treatment to faster benefit from the next generation of drugs.

CAN – Cure Acceleration Network

CAN have more than 50 organisations supporting enable lab research to move into physical drugs used in hospitals treatments. These supporters are actively in search of NIH funding so that they can progress in the medical research.

Source: Aging Research

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