Bioscience News
How Sleep Effects Your Longevity – Slumber Habits Impact Life Extension
For something that occupies about one third of our lives, little was known about the importance of sleep with regard to our life expectancy until recently. Based on a study of twins that took more than twenty years to complete, scientists discovered that not only does sleep have an effect on our health; it also has [...]
Continue reading...How Your Mind and Science Combine To Extend Your Life
Friday, March 12, 2010
Skepticism is alive, well, and actually thriving as it pertains to the medical research field. If you believe the contrary to what research has exhibited due to a lack of solid evidence, you are a contrarian and there are many out there. Skepticism is for many people a means of getting to the truth rather [...]
Continue reading...Use Genome Sequencing To Identify The Origin of A Disease
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Research teams are now delving to decode the genome sequences and its hidden origins for various diseases. Previously, two independent teams began to study the genome of patient suffering from various health pathologies. The study of genome sequences have up to now only been conducted on healthy individuals. It was extremely costly to decode the [...]
Continue reading...Will “Human Cyborg” Be Created in The Future To Solve Longevity Challenges?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Technology advancement and life extension programs are accelerating across a range of fields of longevity studies. It might turnout that the future of cybernetics transcends human kind into a biologically immortal Cyborg. Technology has driven the world from a primitive state towards a highly sophisticated and complex modern world. The primitive man [...]
Continue reading...Albert Einstein Might Live Again; His Brain Has Been Preserved
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
There are definitely doubts about biological immortality. However, life itself is a mystery of its own, unraveling it might require longevity to reach a state of immortality. This is why the brain of Albert Einstein has been preserved. Our disbelief in cryonics is visible, in the way our post-mortem brain is treated. It is buried [...]
Continue reading...Will Increasing Our Longevity Be An Imprudent Expense Or An Evolutionary Milestone?
Saturday, February 20, 2010
How many of us remember the first time we realized that someday – we were going to die? Most likely you were just a child when you first understood that death was indeed a part of life, understanding what death is at such a young age remains with you. When you finally do “get it”, [...]
Continue reading...By Eating Less You Will Live Longer
Friday, February 19, 2010
Volunteer participants in the Comprehensive Assessment of Long Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy [or CALERIE], are losing weight in the traditional manner – they are eating less than normal, much less. The study being conducted at Tuft University in Boston has its contributors eating up to twenty five percent less food calories over [...]
Continue reading...New Hope For Aging And Damaged Skin Comes From Apple Stem Cells
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Through the progression of age, our bodies produce fewer cells and it means we are unable to control our aging epidermis as we once could. Skin stem cells that are required to produce plump fresh skin are reduced considerably and do not function nearly as well. A new finding that involves plant stem cell experimentation [...]
Continue reading...Garlic less Powerful than Previously Connoted
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Garlic has by many, been esteemed, as a very powerful source of nutrition. It has since long been connoted with medical characteristics such as lowering cholesterol, fighting against virus and bacteria as well as alleviate some risk of cancer pathologies. Garlic is still a medical nutrition. However its pretended therapeutic benefits towards cancer are no [...]
Continue reading...The Scientific Dispute That Will Decide How Long Humans Will Live
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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There is a debate among life extension researchers that could lead to the same stagnation that so many other debates result in and that is a lack of goal advancement and split resources that otherwise could have fought the same good fight. Nevertheless, the longevity experts are determined to achieve their goal of engineered genetics [...]
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
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