Website review: The Longevity Meme -- ideas and ac...
archmagus discovered this in Antiaging
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archmagus discovered 53 months ago- life extension methods and healthy living
- matthewbhere rated 5 months ago
- ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING BLOGS OUT THERE. The content here will change the way you view disease and aging. Plus, there is a lot of information about what's new in science, and how to add healthful years to your life. Reading this blog is like reading a dozen technology blogs, all rolled into one.
- ameelyn rated 6 months ago
- very good resource about antiaging and longevity
- marilynwindham rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Tissue Engineering Replacement Skin January 04 2008 | Permanent Link ScienceDaily looks at the work of a German group in the tissue engineering field: "We pluck a few hairs off the back of the patient's head and extract adult stem cells from their roots, which we then proliferate in a cell culture for about two weeks. Then we reduce the nutrient solution until it no longer covers the upper sides of the cells, exposing them to the surrounding air. The increased pressure exerted by the oxygen on the surfaces of the cells causes them to differentiate into skin cells ... In this way, the researchers can grow numerous small pieces of skin, produced individually for each patient, which add up to a surface area of 10 to 100 square centimeters when pieced together. ... The researchers expect to grow skin grafts for 10 to 20 patients a month in 2008. ... At present, chronic wounds are treated by grafting on the patients' own skin, which is normally taken from the thigh. This leaves scars on both the thigh and the treated wound ... we can achieve the same chances of recovery without hurting the patient. Moreover, the artificial skin grows onto the wound without scarring." On the Methuselah Mouse Prize January 04 2008 | Permanent Link Thoughts on the Methuselah Mouse Prize for longevity research from the Economist: "To encourage people to take his ideas seriously, Aubrey de Grey, the originator of the strategies for engineered negligible senescence, has organized a competition. He is offering a prize for the development of what he calls a Methuselah mouse. There are actually two prizes to be had. One is for longevity, the other for rejuvenation. The prize for longevity can be won by a new strain of mouse - one bred or genetically engineered to live a long time. That for rejuvenation requires treatment to begin when the mice are already in middle age. ... The winner establishes a record that others have to break. At the moment the records for longevity and rejuvenation are five years and almost four in an animal that normally lives for three. How translatable the lesson of a Methuselah mouse will be to people is a matter of debate. ... The reason mice age rapidly is that they have lots of predators and would get killed quickly anyway. Humans have few predators and tend not to get killed - at least not as easily as mice. It is therefore worthwhile for people to evolve better repair mechanisms than mice, and thus to age more slowly." Nonetheless, radical life extension in lesser mammals is an important step along the way - not just as a proving ground for the science, but as a way of educating the public as to the degree to which aging can potentially be reversed in humans."
- Thomas999 rated 6 months ago
- Some good articles, scientifically based, on health and aging. Interesting research going on in this field
- machinat rated 6 months ago
- The secret of longevity seems simple enough - eat less, give more.
- iam15years rated 11 months ago
- longevity emem
