CAN AGING BE STOPPED? Many diseases come with old age. But the idea of pathologizing aging in itself and as a whole has been gaining attention the past few years. Some argue that aging is just damage that the body has sustained throughout life—that these natural wear-and-tear effects can be stopped and ultimately undone. This…
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Global Trends – The Rising Longevity Industry.
Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustees will attend The Economist conference Ageing Societies 2016 on 29-30th November in London. Biogerontology Research Foundation UK executives and trustees Dmitry Kaminskiy and Alex Zhavoronkov will attend panel discussions at the Aging Societies conference 2016, organized by The Economist, in London, United Kingdom on November 29-30th 2016. The upcoming Aging Societies…
TED: What will be the next big scientific breakthrough?
In our busy lives, with work, home, families, we sometimes forget to pause and reflect on the age we are living in. This blog gives but a glimpse of the revolutionary science happening all around us and its implications for our future. Eric Haseltine, futurist, author, innovator, gave a brief but meaningful TED Talk focusing…
A Revolution in Science: The Quest to Stop Aging is Underway
Futurism.com rounds up the developments in longevity research. Recently, the U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved clinical trials aimed at combating aging and age related diseases. A drug called “metformin,” and our increasing understanding of genetics, is leading us into a new battleground – one where we may have the upper-hand. So when will these much-heralded…
Aubrey de Grey on staying ahead of aging
Aubery de Gray predicts fifty percent chance within the next 20 years of achieving first generation SENS antiaging technology which could rejuvenate humans by 30 years. Antiaging progress is going to be more and more dramatic within 6-10 years the progress will be made that will make it clear to everyone that the antiaging revolution…
OncoSENS Control ALT Delete Cancer
Of all the risk factors associated with cancer: obesity, smoking, sun exposure etc., there is none more universal than aging. According to a 2011 report on Global Health and Aging, the number of people aged 65 or older is projected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050 and correspondingly the yearly number of new cancer cases…