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Is There Any Chance of Realizing Human Immortality?

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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Is There Any Chance of Realizing Human Immortality?

Scientists say that genes associated with the aging process have been identified. Studies on mice have proven that it is even possible to double lifespan. A famous expert in gerontology believes that the first human to enjoy a lifespan of 1,000 years ...

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Will Scientists Cure Aging And Allow People To Become Immortals?

Saturday, March 10, 2012

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Will Scientists Cure Aging And Allow People To Become Immortals?

According to, Aubrey de Grey’s predictions the first man to ever reach his or her 150th birthday is already amidst us while the ‘first person to reach 1,000 years’ is aged below 20 years, today. Grey is a chief scientist of SENS found ...

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Your Child Might Be Able To Live To 150 Years

Thursday, February 16, 2012

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Your Child Might Be Able To Live To 150 Years

If we go back 162 years, to year 1850, human lifespan was only 43 years but now in 2012, average lifespan is 80 years. The question is how old can humans really become? A book entitled “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Ever ...

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Anti-Aging Medicine Needs Risky & Probably Unethical Clinical Experiments

Monday, February 13, 2012

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Anti-Aging Medicine Needs Risky & Probably Unethical Clinical Experiments

Related Article: Is Longevity Research Ethical? Yes it Is Seeking volunteers in good health for participating in clinical experiments of treatments that have been designed to fundamentally increase man's life span. The treatments that are being experi ...

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Mice In Laboratories Unlocking New Secrets of the Fountain of Youth

Sunday, January 15, 2012

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Mice In Laboratories Unlocking New Secrets of the Fountain of Youth

Mice tend to end up their life being prototypes of medical research. We should note that mice represent 50 percent of the laboratory animals used for experiment and thus the prime source of testing for modern medicine. Recently, a group of resear ...

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Will Our Generation Live to 150 Years?

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Will Our Generation Live to 150 Years?

There is a group of researchers suggesting that people can live beyond the age of 150 years. This is something that has not been realized other than in tales from the Old Testament. The highest recorded longevity is for a woman who died in Franc ...

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African People on HIV Drugs Can Expect to live A Normal Lifespan

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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African People on HIV Drugs Can Expect to live A Normal Lifespan

Recently, on the world conference on AIDS medicine held in Rome, it was announced that Africans on HIV drugs can expect to have a more-or-less normal lifespan. Yet, women suffering from AIDS are expected to outlive men. This was the result of the wor ...

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Similar Origin of Stem Cells & Cancer Cells

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Similar Origin of Stem Cells & Cancer Cells

Recently, US scientists revealed that oncogenes can transform typical cells into stem-alike cells. This does thereby give us new insight on how to better and more safely treat diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis. Researchers from three diffe ...

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Scientists Boast First Successful Transformation of Human Skin Cells to Functional Neurons

Friday, June 24, 2011

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Scientists Boast First Successful Transformation of Human Skin Cells to Functional Neurons

As scientists embark in a quest to pursue breakthroughs in stem cell therapy, another discovery is made, leading them a step closer to their ultimate goal. A thriving achievement was made by Stanford University’s Marius Wernig and his group as they ...

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Could Adult Stem Cells Mean No More Aging?

Friday, February 18, 2011

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Could Adult Stem Cells Mean No More Aging?

There is much controversy surrounding the use of stem cells for various therapeutic procedures however, perhaps the answer is utilizing adult stem cells rather than the stormy embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells are quite possibly the future of medicine ...

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