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Hijacking Cellular Communications to Improve Regeneration 27 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
Researchers here spur greater regeneration following injury by broadcasting on one of the channels used for communication between cells. This is a form of cellular manipulation that will become more s...
Looking for Sarcopenia Therapies in Fish 27 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
A number of lines of research aim to find the basis for human therapies in lower animals that happen to have more favorable outcomes in aging as a result of their genetics and metabolism. Here is one ...
Recent Calorie Restriction Research: Monkeys, Squirrels, Mice, and Yeast 27 Aug 2013 | 04:13 am
Researchers around the world are examining the effects of calorie restriction in many different species, and have been for years. In near all species reducing calorie intake while maintaining optimal ...
Transplant of Bone Marrow Cells From Young Mice Modestly Extends Life in Old Mice 26 Aug 2013 | 04:50 pm
In past years researchers have shown that introducing young cells and cell signaling into old individuals via transplant or parabiosis improves some measures of health and reduces some measures of agi...
Genomics X Prize Cancelled 26 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
The genomics X Prize had only a slight connection to aging research: the goal was to sequence the genomes of 100 centenarians at a small cost, and add that knowledge to the present state of understand...
A Two-Part Report on Global Futures 2045 24 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
The 2045 Initiative is a fairly young but comparatively well-backed effort to generate more support for and technological progress towards non-biological means of human life extension: artificial bodi...
The Next Few Years of Research Into Alzheimer's Disease 23 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
A conservative view of what lies ahead for Alzheimer's disease (AD) research sees incremental progress resulting from new and better investigative biotechnologies: In the recently published work "The...
A Look Back at Some of the Roots of Modern Thought on Radical Life Extension 23 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
The modern movements of transhumanism and support for longevity science have deep roots: you can find early expressions of the ideas of human enhancement and overcoming natural limits on our biology i...
Damaging the Biology of Mice to Make them Age More Rapidly Often Tells Us Little of Use 23 Aug 2013 | 02:29 am
Aging is damage: it is the accumulation of broken and obstructed protein machinery and nanoscale structures inside and around our cells. Living beings come with many varied repair systems, so the proc...
Calorie Restriction as a Means to Augment Cancer Therapies 22 Aug 2013 | 04:40 pm
Long term calorie restriction lowers the risk of cancer in addition to extending life in laboratory animals. Here researchers show that short term calorie restriction appears to augment the effectiven...
