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People Enjoying Extreme Longevity Are Blessed with Longevity-Genes

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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People Enjoying Extreme Longevity Are Blessed with Longevity-Genes

A recent study showed that people who live to 110 years have an equal amount of disease-associated genes as the overall population. However, super-centenarians are gifted with protective genes enabling them to enjoy extreme longevity. Super-centenarians’ (people living to 110 or beyond) are uncommon in the general population. In developed countries only one person out [...]

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Scientists Discover Origin of Blood Stem Cells

Sunday, December 18, 2011

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Scientists Discover Origin of Blood Stem Cells

At the Cell & Developmental Biology of the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Professor Nancy Speck’s team finds a particular molecular marker directly related with hematopoietic (blood) stem cells abbreviated as HSCs. The pathway was found in the course of developing an embryo, and this insight adds significant contribution to research in cell-engineering. [...]

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Biological Age is Influenced By Our Mind: Believe You Are Young And You’ll Be

Sunday, July 31, 2011

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Biological Age is Influenced By Our Mind: Believe You Are Young And You’ll Be

The longevity of humans is restricted. Yet better lifestyle practices can effectively help to delay aging. Currently, the segment of the population that is expanding the fastest is the aging one. It is estimated that by 2050, we will have a population of centenarians reaching 6 million, while 25 percent of the Western population will [...]

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Morgan Freeman – On Science – Can We Live Forever?

Sunday, July 24, 2011

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Morgan Freeman – On Science – Can We Live Forever?

The 27th of July 2011, On Science, discovery Through the Wormhole 2: episode 8, the team is tackling the intriguing question on ‘can we life forever?’ Here is a short snapshot on how episode 8 (Can We Live forever?). Over the past centuries, human life expectancy has doubled. This is a target already met, but [...]

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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 different institutions have been working in collaboration to successfully show that human skin cells can be changed [...]

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Brain Preservation Technology; Ending the Conflict between Cryonicists and Cryobiologists

Sunday, July 3, 2011

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Brain Preservation Technology; Ending the Conflict between Cryonicists and Cryobiologists

As a matter of fact, the field of cryonics intersects substantially with cryobiology. Regardless of their similarities, cryonics activists and anti-cryonics cryobiologists have engaged in an open battle against each other for the past four decades. In an outstanding article written by Mike Darwin in the year 1991 (COLD WAR: The Conflict between Cryonicists and [...]

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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 became the first, to effectively transform human skin cells into nerve cells, without the [...]

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Avita Medical’s ReCell Spray-on-Skin Takes Burn Treatment to New Heights

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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Avita Medical’s ReCell Spray-on-Skin Takes Burn Treatment to New Heights

Not only is the skin a natural “dam” that impounds the human body fluids, it also serves as a barrier that shields us from hazardous chemicals and infectious agents that may threaten us without warning. Moreover, it is built with sensory receptors that give us senses to feel our surroundings. In the animal kingdom, the [...]

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Human Enhancement with Modern Technology

Sunday, May 29, 2011

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Human Enhancement with Modern Technology

An exhibition on our future species is going on at Science Gallery of Trinity College in Dublin. It will continue until June 24th 2011. Lots of experts, professors and scientists are attending the exhibition and expressing their views. One of the participants said that it’s not only about what would be the future species, but [...]

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Human Enhancement through Technology and Medicine

Sunday, May 1, 2011

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Human Enhancement through Technology and Medicine

As technology is growing day by day, we hear strange things about it. One such incident is about Professor Waffa Bilal, who tied a camera in the back of his skull. This video camera had a titanium base. He did it to check students but with scattered wires he looked extremely weird. The camera worked [...]

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