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PhDComics And Dr. JP Magalhaes Ask: What Is Aging (And Can We Do Anything About It)?

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

PhDComics And Dr. JP Magalhaes Ask: What Is Aging (And Can We Do Anything About It)?


Check out Jorge Cham’s fantastic animation for PhD Comics of a talk on Aging, that was given by Dr. Joao Pedro De Magalhaes.

This abbreviated version of Dr. J’s original talk touches on viability, historical lifespans, cell-renewal, free-radicals, mitochondria, telomeres, lucky animal species, nude rats, genetic-modification, evolution, diet, and linchpin-genes.

 
In it, he also talks about his first inspiration to get into the field of aging-science and transcend the apparent “Law of Nature” that…

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Google To Tackle Death With Calico. -Your Move, Death…

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, News

Google To Tackle Death With Calico. -Your Move, Death…
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As much as I was dismayed at Google Health shutting down, I am equally excited at Google Calico launching.

-Which is apparently so badass, that the former CEO of Genentech and current Chairman of Apple, yes -that- Apple, is going to run it,

And puts Curing Cancer on the list of its Easy goals; -Hard ones like serious life-extension to follow.

 
KurzweilAI?, 2045 Project? -You are all toast…

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Singularity No Happen? Just Talk to Electro-Harmonix. -Because It’s Really All About The Delay…

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

Singularity No Happen? Just Talk to Electro-Harmonix. -Because It’s Really All About The Delay…
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Take that, Ray Kurzweil! -BAM!

Ok, fun’s over.

Though my informal guess involves some of my old pal Joseph Schumpeter’s work, and pattern-observation of real delays in predictions of the Web 1.0 Bubble,

It ultimately differs from Both Ray and Duke Neuroscientist, Miguel Nicolelis,

 
Who says the Singularity won’t happen. -Ever.…

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NIH Study: Calorie-Reduction Diet Doesn’t Extend Life [Was Clearly Sabotoaged By Less-Than-Gruntled Monkeys]

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Noise, Nutrition, Popular Diets, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

NIH Study: Calorie-Reduction Diet Doesn’t Extend Life [Was Clearly Sabotoaged By Less-Than-Gruntled Monkeys]
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BULLSH**! I respectfully disagree. So far, CR is looking like the ONLY thing that works.

The only thing this proves is that there are differences in the 2 methodologies.

-That and monkeys are not to be trusted.

In fact, I’m sure they conspired to screw the results for the indignity of being kept in restricted conditions so blood samples could be taken regularly.

+And at least 1/2 of them were sneaking cigarette breaks…

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How Hot Are Your Fingertips? The Weird-Science Proxy-Indicator Of Grip Strength Vs. Mortality

Filed Under: Aging

How Hot Are Your Fingertips? The Weird-Science Proxy-Indicator Of Grip Strength Vs. Mortality
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Ok, so awhile ago I met this doctor, let’s call him, “Mr. Green Jeans”.

And Mister Green Jeans is telling me about this research he and his lab full of techs did on a bunch of subjects.

He starts kicking out all these different variables, and the names and descriptions of these hissing, wheezing,…

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RESET: Double Your Lifespan! -Just Get Used To Feeling Yeasty

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

RESET: Double Your Lifespan! -Just Get Used To Feeling Yeasty
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For a long long time, scientists have known what Aging is, as expressed only in terms of what it is to look like Mr. Bigglesworth.

BUT NOW!

-In a set of interesting experiments that take a new approach, MIT biologists studied the only thing simpler than Courtney Stodden.

-No, not amoebas; -close. Yeast.

And they found something interesting. Again, similar to the NMJ post, part of the Yeast cell near the nucleus that makes proteins just “looked old”.

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Gratuitous Immortality-Drug Post: Russian Biochemist Claims Aging Cure; You’ll Find It At Walgreen’s… in 2261

Filed Under: Aging, Noise, Other

Gratuitous Immortality-Drug Post: Russian Biochemist Claims Aging Cure; You’ll Find It At Walgreen’s… in 2261


 
-But it actually turned out in trials only to make a higher percentage of the lab animals reach old age.

None of them lived any longer than bog-standard-mouse-duration. Oh, Well.

Yes, Dr. Skulkachev has the obligatory “I experimented on myself and Look! -It works!”-story about his cataract.

The guy even gets a major hat tip from an Actual Nobel Laureate; -in Medicine, the Awesome-Hairdo-Sporting Dr. Gunter Blobel…

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