Ben Best, who wrote for The Scientific Conquest of Death: some problems with Immortalism, was a person with fantasy who believed in hypnotic power, and more intriguingly extreme longevity. With no limits on his potential longevity, he doubted the possibility of achieving immortalism. The very fact that “Forever” is more than a long time, it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Combating diseases that are related to aging such as diabetes and cancer may in fact depend on scientists solving the mysteries regarding cellular and molecular processes that govern the process of aging. The fundamental theory remains that if ever the healthy part of a person’s life span can be prolonged, it may as a result [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 1, 2010
In accordance with the researchers from the Regenerative Medicine and the Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University and the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, a gene which was shown to play a part in the process of aging seems to play an important role in regulating the differentiation of embryonic stem cells. In the research [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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The spirit of optimism is expanding widely in our age of unreason. This is bringing change in practices, ideologies, action and a more universal attitude towards science and technology. Apartheid, communist societies and slavery are a few examples of obsolete social, economic and political systems. They are being left behind with all its sorrows and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 20, 2010
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The researchers of the National Institute on Aging (NIA), which forms part of the National Institutes of Health, have found out a solution to embryonic stem (ES) cell restoration in a gene, known as the Zscan4, like it was reported in the online issue of Nature on the 24th of March 2010. This breakthrough discovery [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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Life is a journey of desirable and undesirable events. Remember, while you are reading this sentence, more than 10 people will pass away. This includes helpless children as well as those suffering from an extreme agony. In the span of a day, 2,700 children are killed by measles; 6,000 children die from diarrhea; 1,400 women [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 14, 2010
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Aubrey de Grey is an impressive research but considered by many as a maverick scientist. The truth is that he might be holding the key solution for boosting longevity to unimaginable heights. He outshines the crowd when it comes to advocating an astounding pathway towards healthier and longer life. It is through his non-profit institution [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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Results from Einstein study based on healthy centenarians According to team that has been led by researchers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, there is an obvious connection between living up to 100 years and a hyperactive version of an enzyme that is responsible for rebuilding telomeres, that is, the tip ends [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 3, 2010
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The taken for granted issues are nowadays more frequently being challenged. As it was said in the film by Steve Martin, “The Man with Two Brains “You’re playing God”, “Somebody has to!”” this shows how perceptions are altering. The debate whether we should or should not play “GOD” is an increasingly tense topic. Many humanists [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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Life extension is considered by many as a natural phenomenon. However, science has an important contribution in the rise in longevity. It is soon expected that science will be able to elevate life expectancy from eighty to a hundred and thereafter a thousand. Bruce Klein is a transhumanist and the founder of Imminist (The Immortality [...]
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