January 20, 2017
Most advocates of life extension report facing resistance to the idea of increased lifespans by medical means when trying to disseminate it among the general public. Resistance manifests itself in many forms, ranging from concerns such as overpopulation to concerns about unequal access to life-extending treatments. However, the most unexpected thing is probably that people...
January 18, 2017
There has been a lot of hype and hope over transfusing old people with young blood in an attempt to rejuvenate the body in a similar manner to earlier heterochronic parabiosis experiments, in which the circulatory systems of an old and a young mouse were linked and some level of rejuvenation was observed [1]. Many...
January 16, 2017
We are very pleased to announce that Trust me, I'm a "Biologist", a popular science and biology page, has joined the Lifespan Network, a group of like-minded groups and organizations working in science. With a community of over 739,000 readers, this is a very popular science page on Facebook, and it publishes science memes and motivationals...
January 14, 2017
For many of you reading this article, Dr. Aubrey de Grey needs little or no introduction. However, for those less well acquainted with his work, he is one of the most prominent scientists in the field of rejuvenation biotechnology. More than fifteen years ago, Aubrey took up the challenge of persuading the aging research community that aging was...
January 13, 2017
Recently, there has been a focus on the removal of senescent cells as a therapy to treat age-related diseases by directly addressing one of the hallmarks of aging: senescent cell accumulation. These senolytic therapies are the first SENS therapies to be developed in order to directly address and repair the damage that aging does to the body....
January 10, 2017
Over the past few weeks, CellAge has been producing a number of video shorts to answer questions about its current fundraising campaign on Lifespan.io, so we have compiled them here in a single digest. Its project aims to develop synthetic biology tools for detection and removal of toxic senescent cells that accumulate with time, causing...